To recognize more clearly Vietnam’s laws and policies for prevention of gender-based violence, the paper focuses on some issues, including: concepts relating to gender-based violence; content and scope of the current policies involved with types of gender-based violence within family and community (such as trafficking in women and children, prostitution, and sexual abuse). | Gender-based Violence: Some Aspects. GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: SOME ASPECTS ON THE LAW AND POLICY IN VIETNAM NGUYEN HUU MINH * TRAN THI HONG ** TRAN THI CAM NHUNG *** Abstract: To recognize more clearly Vietnam’s laws and policies for prevention of gender-based violence, the paper focuses on some issues, including: concepts relating to gender-based violence; content and scope of the current policies involved with types of gender-based violence within family and community (such as trafficking in women and children, prostitution, and sexual abuse). Based on the viewpoint of prohibiting strictly acts of gender-based violence, Vietnam government has made a lot of efforts for the past years to build a legal framework and deal with acts that are manifestations of gender-based violence. However, there are still loopholes in the system of existing laws and policies. There has not been yet a clearly specific definition of gender-based violence as well as detailed regulations on specific manifestations of gender-based violence. Besides, it is necessary to pay attention to some other factors such as cost, coordination, supervision, and database of genderbased violence, when carrying out policy implementation. Key words: Gender-based violence, abuse, harassment, trafficking. 1. The concept of gender-based violence The term gender-based violence (GBV) is generally used to distinguish common violence from violence that targets individuals or groups of individuals as a result of the unequal power relationships between different genders. Not only women and girls, but also men and boys can be victims of this type of violence. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR 2003) used the term “gender-based violence” according to the Articles and of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women in 1993 and the General Recommendation , Part VI of the 11th Session of CEDAW Committee. Thus, gender-based violence means the violence directed a person
