According to the WHO, approximately 736 million women have experienced physical or
sexual abuse by intimate partners or sexual violence by people other than intimate partners. This
number has barely changed over the past decade. The 2019 National Study on Violence against
Women in Viet Nam showed that nearly two in three women (around 63 percent) suffer from one
or more forms of physical, sexual, mental, and economic violence, as well as control of behavior
caused by their husbands during their lifetime and nearly 32 percent of women currently suffer
from violence (within the past 12 months). Hence, this article analyzes Vietnam laws and
regulations on domestic violence against women. At the same time, it compares them with
certain international documents such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) of 1979, the Declaration on the Elimination of
Violence against Women of 1993, the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention and
Control of Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) of 2011 and
legal consultations in some countries around the world. Then recommendations are made to
improve the law in this field.