VietNamNet Bridge – Noting the names of parents on ID cards is inappropriate to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, said a senior official of the Ministry of Justice.

The new ID card.

Dr. Le Hong Son, Head of the Ministry of Justice’s Department for Inspection of Legal Documents, said the Ministry of Public Security’s Circular dated May 16, 2012, which stipulates to note parent names on ID cards issued from July 1, 2012, will make trouble for citizens.

Son said the circular is inappropriate to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly those who were born by artificial insemination method.

Article 16 of this convention says: “No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honor and reputation.”

Article 38 of the Civil Law 2005 says that the mother has the right to keep silent about the child’s father.

It is the violation of private life if citizens are requested to have their parent names on their ID cards.

In addition, for citizens whose parents are officials or moguls, they can use their ID cards to “threaten” in-service officers in specific circumstances, Son analyzed.

The Department for Inspection of Legal Documents has asked the Minister of Justice to ask the government to reconsider this issue, Dr. Son said.

In the latest news, the Ministry of Public Security on August 21 announced to temporarily stop issuing new ID cards, with parent names.

Compiled by Le Ha