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 gender-based violence, when carrying out policy implementation.