Human Trafficking in [Vietnam] [other countries]
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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery

In the first ten years of the 21^st Century - 2000 to 2009

Socialist Republic of Vietnam Since 2001, Vietnamese authorities have reaffirmed their commitment to economic liberalization and international integration. They have moved to implement the structural reforms needed to modernize the economy and to produce more competitive export-driven industries. Agriculture's share of economic output has continued to shrink from about 25% in 2000 to less than 20% in 2008. Deep poverty has declined significantly and is now smaller than that of China, India, and the Philippines. Vietnam is working to create jobs to meet the challenge of a labor force that is growing by more than one-and-a-half million people every year. [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009]

Vietnam is a source and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Women and children are trafficked to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Cambodia, Thailand, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Macau for sexual exploitation. Vietnam is a source country for men and women who migrate for work through informal networks and through state-owned and private labor export companies in the construction, fishing, or manufacturing sectors in Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, the PRC, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Western Europe, and the Middle East, but subsequently face conditions of forced labor or debt bondage. Labor export companies may charge workers as much as $10,000 for the opportunity to work abroad, making them highly vulnerable to debt bondage. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report]

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The Plight Of Vietnamese Women

There are, at present, around 200,000 Vietnamese women in Taiwan. Most of them are 17- and 18-year-old girls trying to escape poverty by agreeing to marry Taiwanese men of various shapes and sizes. These grooms may be old and crippled. Even when the girls’ families end up with only $500 most of the brides said that they would still do it again despite their black years in Taiwan. They would do it for their peasant families in rural Viet Nam, leaving aside the cosmic question of how one could practically sell oneself for a mere $500.

Trafficking of men appears in border provinces

Two months ago, a woman came to Phu’s hamlet to recruit workers to work in China with a monthly income of VND3.6 million ($220). Eight young boys, including Phu went with the woman to China but only Phu and another boy named Phan Van Lin could escape from the brick kiln. “We didn’t know that we were sold till we arrived at the brick kiln. If we didn’t work, we would be beaten by the brick kiln owners,” he said.

Trafficking of women is popular but trafficking of men is still very strange to both the people and state agencies. Young boys like Diu and Phu want to denounce the woman who sold them to China but the Vietnamese laws don’t have regulations on this crime yet.

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Bur of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005

TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS – Some children were trafficked domestically, and others were trafficked to foreign destinations for the purpose of prostitution. An NGO advocate has estimated that the average age of trafficked girls was between 15 and 17 years of age. Some reports indicated that the ages of girls trafficked to Cambodia typically were even lower.

Individuals also were convicted in cases in which parents received payments in exchange for giving up their infant children for adoption. In addition, there was anecdotal evidence that small children and infants were sometimes kidnapped and sold to traffickers in China. Children also were trafficked to other countries; in September the press reported that Vietnamese children arriving illegally in the United Kingdom had become the victims of crime and abuse, including being forced to work in brothels, as beggars, in crime rings, or as drug traffickers (see section 5, Children). Mass organizations and NGOs continued to operate limited programs to reintegrate trafficked children into society. During the year programs designed to provide protection and reintegration assistance for trafficking victims through psychosocial support and vocational training, as well as to supplement regional and national prevention efforts by targeting at‑risk populations for similar services, continued operation in the north of the country.

There were reports that some women from Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta who married men from Taiwan were forced into prostitution after their arrival in Taiwan. There was reported trafficking in women to the Macau Special Administrative Region of China with the assistance of organizations in China that were ostensibly marriage service bureaus, international labor organizations, and travel agencies. After arrival, women were forced into conditions similar to indentured servitude; some were forced into prostitution. In 2002 the government suspended the licenses of marriage mediation services and transferred their function to the Women's Union. The services had helped to arrange marriages between women and foreigners, primarily Taiwanese men. Government officials noted that it continued to be difficult to obtain information from Taiwanese officials on cases of alleged trafficking in Taiwan.

Poor women and teenage girls, especially those from rural areas, were most at risk for being trafficked. MPS and UNICEF research indicated that trafficking victims can come from any part of the country but were concentrated in certain northern and southern border provinces as well as the central province of Thanh Hoa. Some were sold by their families as domestic workers or for sexual exploitation. In some cases traffickers paid families several hundred dollars in exchange for allowing their daughter to go to Cambodia for an "employment offer." Many victims faced strong pressure to make significant contributions to the family income. Others were offered lucrative jobs by acquaintances. False advertising, debt bondage, confiscation of documents, and threats of deportation were other methods commonly used by the traffickers, spouses, and employers.

Individual opportunists and informal networks, as well as some organized groups, lured poor, often rural, women with promises of jobs or marriage and forced them to work as prostitutes. The government stated that organized criminal groups were involved in recruitment, transit, and other trafficking‑related activities.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2003

[49] The Committee notes with concern that a significant proportion of sex workers are under the age of 18. Furthermore, it is concerned that, although the State party recognizes trafficking in children to be a significant problem, the number of officially reported cases is very low.

Trafficking victims try to remake lives

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Like dozens of other workers from Vietnam and China, Tiep Ngo had been lured to the Daewoosa clothing factory in American Samoa by hollow promises of good pay. She left behind her child, her husband and her parents and paid $5,000 for her job contract, only to be starved, beaten and cheated of wages. For nearly two years, Ngo labored in the stifling, overcrowded factory, subsisting on meager portions of rice and cabbage and longing for her family.

Malaysia, Viet Nam police to investigate human trafficking

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Malaysian Deputy Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar said that scores of young women from the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region in Viet Nam had been enticed by promises of well-paid work as waitresses in Malaysia. The trafficking ring allegedly organised their passports and flight tickets and then forced them into prostitution. If they refused, they were locked up, beaten and starved, according to the report.

Vietnam man arrested for human trafficking

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The Hanoi man, identified as Nguyen Anh Tuan, allegedly befriended the women through internet chatrooms, then enticed them to travel to northern border areas from where they were sent to China, the Than Nien daily said.

Most Vietnamese women and children who fall victim to trafficking are sent to neighbouring China or Cambodia for arranged marriages or prostitution.

Human trafficking crackdown

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As many as 900 human trafficking cases involving 1,600 traffickers and 2,200 smuggled women and children were detected from 2005-2007. Police and border guards have also uncovered several rings that trafficked women and children from Vietnam via Laos to Thailand, Africa or Europe to be sex workers. Economic difficulties, unemployment and poor education, especially in mountainous and remote areas, were the major factors in the trafficking increase.

Southern Africa: Human Trafficking Concern for 2010

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Human trafficking is a pervasive global problem, and strong laws are vital to preventing and prosecuting it, as well as caring for survivors. Take the case of Mary Jiang* who left her home in Vietnam to go and work in Taiwan, anticipating a good job with a salary that would give her the chance to improve her life and that of her family. However, when she arrived she found the promises were false, and she suffered inhuman treatment by her employers who forced her to work gruelling 16-hour days. When one of the 20 machines she worked on at once caught Jiang's hand, she waited 45 minutes before her hand was freed, suffering sever injuries. After two days in hospital her employers told her to sign some forms, they were taking her to a better hospital. Once signed, they took her back to a company building and locked her in a small, dirty room.

Vietnam, Cambodia to battle human trafficking

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Of the 639 human trafficking cases in Vietnam since 2006, 1,287 human traffickers had sold 2,137 women and children overseas, according the Ministry of Public Security. Most cases took place in the nine provinces that share borders with Cambodia.

Foundation fights human trafficking

The HCM City situation - Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, head of the HCM City Department for Preventing and Combating Social Evils, said on September 20 that the city police raided a gang who were forcing homeless children to work as beggars. Sixteen children aged 10 to 14 years were released from the gang, who had forced these children to earn from VND200,000 to VND400,000 per day. Many of them had been badly beaten when they could not offer the money the gangsters wanted.

Trafficking of men appears in border provinces

Two months ago, a woman came to Phu’s hamlet to recruit workers to work in China with a monthly income of VND3.6 million ($220). Eight young boys, including Phu went with the woman to China but only Phu and another boy named Phan Van Lin could escape from the brick kiln. “We didn’t know that we were sold till we arrived at the brick kiln. If we didn’t work, we would be beaten by the brick kiln owners,” he said.

Trafficking of women is popular but trafficking of men is still very strange to both the people and state agencies. Young boys like Diu and Phu want to denounce the woman who sold them to China but the Vietnamese laws don’t have regulations on this crime yet.

Vietnam Justice Department Issues Regulations on Foreign Marriages

In an effort to combat trafficking in women and sexual exploitation, the Ha Noi Justice department has strengthened its efforts to investigate new marriages with foreign citizens by promulgating new regulations. Three hundred officials were informed of the procedures to interview applicant couples and verify the authenticity of their unions. The regulations, which are part of the National Programme on Crime Prevention, seek to prevent fraudulent marriages that conceal human trafficking.

Forum urges regional powers to battle human trafficking

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Khiet said that for Viet Nam, most of the victims were poor, unemployed and uneducated. "Most come from rural areas and are lured by promises of jobs, marriage or adopting agencies into moving to other cities in the country where they are sucked into illegal work," she said.

Foundation begins project to end human trafficking in Viet Nam

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Female students at secondary and high school education levels as well as those young girls who are studying at vocational training centres will be taught about safe migration, thereby they will be able to lead a safe livelihood when choosing to live far away from home.

Many believe girls are often trafficked by people within their own community and sometimes even by family members, making it critical to involve communities as the first line of defence in preventing trafficking. Many women and young girls are trafficked as they migrate from Viet Nam to Cambodia or from rural to urban areas within Viet Nam in an attempt to seek better economic opportunities.

Deputy PM asks for more focus on human trafficking prevention

Apart from women and girls, men and boys are also being trafficked for forced labour overseas. Most of the victims, who were sent across the country's borders for prostitution or child adoption purposes, are from remote, mountainous and underprivileged regions.

Vietnam’s human trafficking plague still on the rise

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The trafficking of Vietnamese women and children, mainly across borders with China and Cambodia, has continued increasing as perpetrators have come to disguise their trade more cleverly. Over the past two years, human traffickers have sent thousands Vietnamese women and children abroad, using cunning tricks to lure victims. Many victims are told they will be happily married, visit lost relatives, or work and travel leisurely on the other side. But most of the cheated women and children are then sold to brothels, forced to work as sex slaves or work hard labor.

Protecting young women from human trafficking in Viet Nam

In 1991,  Phuong was lured to the border by traffickers and taken against her will to China, where she was dragged to a house in a small town and sold to become an older man’s wife.

“I didn’t know how old he was or the name of the place we lived,” she said. “I lost my freedom. I had to go everywhere with his family or else I was locked in a room. I had to work hard. When I was tired or sick, they didn’t let me stop working.

Commune fights human trafficking

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"What will you do if a strange woman asks you to go with her to Lang Son with promises of a good job?" a child in the jury asks of another contestant of the same age.

"I would say no definitely," responds the other side.

The community has dedicated its time to fighting human trafficking, a topic not discussed much in the past, with the best possible weapon: an education.

Anti human trafficking steering committee debuts

The Steering Committee for the implementation of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Human Trafficking (COMMIT) made its debut in Ha Noi on Sept. 29.

The committee will focus on identifying victims and arresting criminals, building a legal framework and national action plans, and promoting bilateral and multi-sectoral cooperation in the fight against human trafficking.

Vietnam, China boost ties to combat human trafficking

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Trafficked young girls have been forced into the sex trade or forced to marry older men. Vietnamese and Chinese police raided more than 30 human trafficking gangs in July and August alone this year.

Govt crack down on human trafficking in border provinces

Eight government working groups will visit five border provinces this month to investigate allegations of trafficking of women and children. The five provinces are Lang Son, Cao Bang, Quang Ninh, Thanh Hoa and Lao Cai.

Vietnam youth union boosting anti-human trafficking advocacy

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In Vietnam, human trafficking is sometimes disguised under form of arranged marriages that frequently result in the women becoming domestic slaves rather than wives. Other victims find themselves in the sex trade instead of the factory job they were promised.

According to sources from UNICEF and Vietnam's Ministry of Justice, as many as 400,000 Vietnamese women and children have been trafficked overseas since 1990. That's around 10 percent of trafficked women and children worldwide.

More co-operation needed in war on human trafficking

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Reviewing the human trafficking trend in the region, Thailand’s Susu Thatun, programme manager of the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region reported that nearly one-third of the global trafficking trade of about 200,000-225,000 women and children are trafficked annually from Southeast Asia.

While in the past women and children have been reported as trafficked victims, Thatun said that boys and men have also been identified as victims as well into the sex trade, heavy labour, begging, marriage, and the fishing industry.

Vietnam police reviews human trafficking fight

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Nearly 1000 Vietnamese women and children have been rescued from being sold abroad since last year, a conference on human trafficking held in the southern Can Tho city on Wednesday heard.

VN, China battle human trafficking

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More than 550 Vietnamese women and children were trafficked to China in the last two years, the Vietnamese police said yesterday in a report released at a workshop held on cross-border trafficking between the two countries.

The police said the victims were deceived by members of organised crime gangs in both countries who promised them good jobs in big cities in Viet Nam or abroad. But many of them ended up being sold to brothels in China.

Vietnam, Cambodia To Crack Down On Human Trafficking

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Under the campaign, part of specific activities under an agreement signed between the two governments in October 2005 regarding cooperation in eliminating human trafficking and helping victims, Vietnam will draw up a list of suspects and rings involved in trafficking women and children from Vietnam to Cambodia.

The Cambodian side will define key areas, suspects and rings engaged in trafficking Vietnamese women and children.

Mekong region govts to co-op against human trafficking

Since the signing of the historic COMMIT Memorandum of Understanding in Yangon, Myanmar in October 2004, by Ministers of the six countries, the Governments have been active in laying the foundation for a network of cooperation to stop traffickers and prosecute them, protect victims of trafficking and assist them return safely home, and launch efforts to prevent others from sharing the same fate.

Trafficking Battle To Get Int’l Aid

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Under a national programme on combating human trafficking, the Public Security Ministry and relevant Government agencies would intensify efforts to halve this crime by 2010, officials said.

One-quarter of Viet girls forced into prostitution to return home

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Interpol Vietnam revealed the 20 girls are among 82 girls in total forced to work as prostitutes abroad. The 82 girls include 50 who were sexually abused in the Czech Republic, 20 other Vietnamese young women in Moscow, and 12 in Macao.

Vietnamese women trafficked, rescued in Czech Republic

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According to Czech police, most of young women involved came from Vietnam’s northern and central provinces of Ha Nam, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh, Hai Duong, Bac Ninh, Hai Phong, Nghe An and Quang Ninh. They had to pay US$5,000 to $7,500 each, tricked into thinking that they were coming to Czech on legitimate terms to well-paid jobs, but instead were forced into prostitution.

Vietnam's global human trafficking an inhuman epidemic

But mostly, the "Tale of Kieu" is relevant to contemporary Vietnam because, two centuries after it was penned, it still tells the story of the Vietnamese people. In order to save their families from destitution, Kieu's contemporaries sell themselves en masse -- except now they are doing so on the global stage. "Still, if your parents and siblings are starving, you've got to do something," said Thuy Le, who is in her mid-20s. "It's the right thing to do."

Stopping an 'Epidemic' -- Vietnamese Priest Reaches Out to Sex Trafficking Victims

Vietnam signed a labor treaty with Taiwan in 1999, and that opened up a new route for desperate Vietnamese looking for work. But it also exacerbated the exploitation problem. Currently we are providing shelter for overseas female workers from Vietnam who have been victims of rape and sexual assaults by their employers, or who were tricked into prostitution and managed to escape from the brothels.

Border police rescue 37 in anti-human trafficking drive

The women were saved thanks to a joint operation between Guangxi and Viet Nam authorities, the release said, calling the rescue a good start to a two-month joint anti-abduction campaign from July to September.

Cambodian police rescue 88 sex workers

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Police in Cambodia have rescued 88 sex workers and detained the four men who allegedly coerced them to work.  Police have raided a massage parlor at a hotel in Phnom Penh, rescuing 56 Cambodians, 28 Vietnamese and four Chinese sex workers.

Vietnam To Tackle `Matchmaking'

"It's good news, actually, as this measure aims to crack down on human trafficking while safeguarding legitimate matchmaking activities," a ministry spokesman said.

Human Trafficking Issue Tackled At Ha Noi Meeting

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The six Mekong nations will build a cooperative network and undertake measures to prevent and combat trafficking, to prosecute human trafficking criminals, to help trafficked people repatriate to their homelands, and to protect victims. Speaking at the conference, Viet Nam’s Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Tinh said it’s difficult to define the number of trafficked victims but the trend in the world and the region is that the crime is increasing.

Over 300 Trafficked Women Rescued

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Last year, over 300 women, who had been trafficked to China, were rescued.  Also last year, Viet Nam and China launched a joint campaign to curb cross-border human trafficking.  The two countries have set up centers for rescuing trafficked children at the common border area.

The Plight Of Vietnamese Women

There are, at present, around 200,000 Vietnamese women in Taiwan. Most of them are 17- and 18-year-old girls trying to escape poverty by agreeing to marry Taiwanese men of various shapes and sizes. These grooms may be old and crippled. Even when the girls’ families end up with only $500 most of the brides said that they would still do it again despite their black years in Taiwan. They would do it for their peasant families in rural Viet Nam, leaving aside the cosmic question of how one could practically sell oneself for a mere $500.

The Modern Scourge of Sex Slavery

[Photo Caption] Cambodian policeman escorts 11-year-old Vietnamese girl from brothel in Toul Kork red-light district of Phnom Penh: Six girls from 11-13 years of age were rescued from brothel that offered only young children. Trafficked from Vietnam, children were rescued during sting operation involving Cambodian Interpol and local police, led by End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT)

Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 7 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free

Human Rights Overview by Human Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide

U.S. Library of Congress - Country Study

The Exploitation of Women and Children: A Comparative Study of Human Trafficking Laws between the United States-Mexico and China-Vietnam

3) ARTICLES

YI WANG, TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM VIETNAM TO CHINA: LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND GOVERNMENT RESPONSES, ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING PROGRAM IN VIETNAM (OXFAM: QUEBEC 2005). 

This study is the profile overview of the human trafficking situation from Vietnam to China.  It discuses the various international treaties the countries have or have not signed, and it also looks at the bilateral treaties between the two countries to combat human trafficking.  Research information on the Vietnam-China cross-border trafficking problem is difficult to come by as most sources are in Chinese or Vietnamese.  This study publication is a wonderful asset for the researcher to understand the China-Vietnam situation and see the types of bilateral efforts sustained in the process.  Furthermore, the study leads to specific treaties and agreements to aid the research.

Attempts to prevent human trafficking are making conditions worse for voluntary migrants

In interviews and discussions with 100 Vietnamese women, only six reported having been "tricked" into sex work. Most knew before they left Vietnam that they would be engaged in sex work and some showed clear ambition to travel for economic incentives and an independent lifestyle.

China, Vietnam Cooperate to Halt Human Trafficking

The trafficking of girls over the Vietnam-China border has been a problem since the two countries normalized relations in 1989. In recent years evidence indicates that the girls have been getting younger and more are being sold into prostitution, rather than as wives as in the past.

In 2002, 141 Vietnamese girls were rescued and repatriated in Dongxing city alone, compared with just 15 in 2001. The number of traffickers arrested rose from seven to 33 in the same period.

China, Vietnam join hands to fight cross-border trafficking of women

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A DIFFICULT FIGHT - Yuan Guangrong, director of the Public Security Bureau of Guangxi Autonomous Region, explains that in most of these cases, Vietnamese women were trapped by phony promises of jobs or marriage. "Nowadays," he says. "Traffickers often use violence to force their victims into submission. In some cases, the victims were duped when they were kidnapped. There are also cases in which rape or even group rape was committed.

"What's more, he adds. "The destination for trafficking has extended from border regions to inland provinces such as Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Jiangsu and Guangdong."

According to the official, most proven human traffickers are Vietnamese. More often than not, they gang up with Chinese criminals in human trafficking, targeting Vietnamese women who are in China without legal papers. Places like railway and bus stations are their hunting grounds. Some women are victims of human trafficking themselves but end up by committing the crime against other women.

Girls trafficked to China starting to get official help

Hoang Hong Tham thought she was going to China for a holiday with a family friend. Instead, the Vietnamese teenager was sold off in late 1999 to a Chinese farmer to be his bride. It was the beginning of a nightmare for a young woman who didn't know the man's language, culture and was unable to contact her family. Tham, now 23, is among thousands of Vietnamese trafficked into China in recent years, a lucrative trade driven in part by a shortage of women in China but also by the promise of jobs and a better life.

Women and child trafficking reported

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A total of 1,758 Vietnamese women and children were reported taken from 16 provinces and cities last year, reported the police at a regional meeting on fighting against trafficking of women and children held in Hanoi last week.

Of that figure, 263 were juveniles, including 11 who were under 10 years old. Some 870 people managed to return home. The women and children were sold abroad, mainly China, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, to work in the sex industry, unwilling brides or as slaves.

Desperation up close

“New girls! New girls!” exclaimed Po, a 15-year-old pimp. What he meant was the girls filling the room had arrived recently from Vietnam. Some, especially the really young ones, age 10 and under, were sent by family members, who probably were paid a few hundred dollars in return. Many of the teenagers, we learned, had been tricked, believing they were coming to Phnom Penh to work as waitresses, and now were stuck with no way to get back home. - htcp

Trafficking in Persons: Myths, Methods, and Human Rights

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[see charts] To China (marriage), To Taiwan (marriage), To Cambodia (sex industry)

Vietnam jails baby smugglers

A court in the northern Vietnamese province of Ninh Binh has sentenced 12 people for their roles in selling children for foreign adoption.

The judge in the trial said the group bought more than 170 new-born babies from unmarried Vietnamese women and desperate families in several northern provinces and then sold them to foreigners.

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