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Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

  • Received 12.07.2025,
  • Revised 01.11.2025,
  • Accepted 25.11.2025
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Vol. 30, No. 4, 2025
  • international experience; regulatory framework; prevention; violence; gender equality; family; victim protection
  • https://doi.org/10.63341/naia-herald/4.2025.63
  • Pages 63-76

The article focused on analysing the specifics of preventing domestic violence under Vietnamese law with a view to sharing and borrowing positive experiences in combating this phenomenon. The methodological basis of the study consisted of normative, historical, comparative, formal-dogmatic, and systemic-structural methods. Attention was drawn to Vietnamʼs policy on preventing and combating domestic violence, which can be implemented in the areas of sustainable development and the fulfilment of international obligations, as well as ensuring the development of society. It has been established that this issue became extremely relevant in Vietnam after the country acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and it was precisely in the context of fulfilling international obligations that measures aimed at ensuring gender equality in all spheres of public life began to be taken. It has been determined that the main causes of domestic violence in the country are gender inequality and stereotypes about the roles of men and women, and therefore their eradication is an important part of preventing such violence. The main elements of the Vietnamese system for combating domestic violence, which includes both legal (punishment of perpetrators) and social (counselling support, medical assistance to victims) measures, were outlined. Based on an analysis of Vietnamese legislation, it has been determined that measures to combat domestic violence were primarily focused on protecting victims of violence and providing them with social, psychological and legal assistance, as well as rehabilitation and corrective work with family members. The tools and mechanisms that can be implemented in the policy to combat domestic violence in Ukraine have been identified

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