HCM City (VNA), Nov. 25 -- The White Ribbon Breakfast was held in Ho Chi Minh City on November 24 to encourage the participation of men and the community as a whole in preventing violence and sexual harassment against women and children, particularly in the context of COVID-19.

The breakfast was co-organised by the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Department of Tourism of HCM City, UN Women, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in response to the UN's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign and Vietnam's action month for gender equality and the prevention of gender-based violence.

Vice Chairman of the municipal People's Committee of HCM City's District 1 Mai Thi Hong Hoa called for gr...