(VOV) – Human trafficking is a persistent problem with troubling rising frequency trends in 63 provinces and cities, especially in areas bordering China, Cambodia, and Laos.
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The General Police Department for Crime Prevention raised the issue at a conference in Hanoi on July 2 to launch a project seeking to strengthen international anti-human trafficking campaigns.
While the trafficking in women and children accounts for more than 80 percent of its incidence in Vietnam, the country has also seen the trafficking in men, infants, pregnant women, and human organs.
Vietnam is both an immediate scene of the crime and an entrepot for traffickers travelling to a third country. The perpetrators include foreign nationals.
Since 2005, 3,200 human trafficking cases have been detected involving nearly 5,600 offenders and 7,000 victims. Between January 2012 and June 2013, more than 1,300 victims have been traded. Traffickers exploit the disadvantaged, the unemployed, and the under-educated, tricking them and selling them abroad.
The project wants at least 5% of all human trafficking cases dealt with via international cooperation.. It also demands 100% of internationally funded projects be implemented as planned.
Vietnam is seeking to sign bilateral anti-human trafficking cooperation agreements with at least three countries and territories by 2015.
The project will also improve the sharing of human trafficking-related information through diplomatic channels like Interpol and coordinate the united efforts of border localities and their relevant foreign counterparts.
Đăng ký: VietNam News