Nearly 1600 human trafficking cases were discovered in
Vietnam in the past five years, with over 3500 women and nearly 500 kids being
sold abroad, according to statistics by the Public Security Ministry.

According to statistics, over 60 percent of the victims were sold to China and
11 percent to Cambodia. Police also arrested 2900 people involved in these
cases.

Human trafficking has become very complicated in Vietnam in recent years. Some
cases discovered by police were organizational and transnational.

Vietnam is trying to build laws and cooperate with other countries to curb human
trafficking.

It is estimated that at least 22,000 women and children were illegally sent to
China during the 1990s.

In Vietnam, trafficking can take the 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 UNICEF, approximately 60% of the estimated 45,000 prostitutes in
Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh, are Vietnamese.

Vietnamese men, women, and girls are trafficked for sexual and labor
exploitation in Cambodia, China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan,
South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic for commercial sexual
exploitation.

Women and men are trafficked for forced labor in factories and for construction
or as domestic servants. Vietnamese trafficking victims are recruited through
fraudulent marriages, false promises of employment, licensed and unlicensed
migrant labor recruiting agencies.

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