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Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have launched a three-month crackdown on human trafficking along Vietnam’s borders through September, given the recent complications with the issue.

The End Trafficking in Persons programme (ETIP) implemented by northern mountainous Yen Bai province and the World Vision International – Vietnam (WVV) has proved fruitful over the past years.

Police in the northern mountainous Son La province on May 20 arrested and started legal proceedings against Yang Mo, a resident of China’s Yunnan province, for her involvement in a cross-border human trafficking case

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha proposed a three-sided meeting with Myanmar and Malaysia to seek solutions for human trafficking in the region on May 8.

The Vietnam Women Union, the UN Women, and the northernmost province of Ha Giang on May 7 jointly hosted a workshop on preventing human trafficking, which is warned to have grown complicated recently.

Thailand has joined five other Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries in signing a joint declaration reiterating their commitment to ending all forms of human trafficking in the region.

Thai police on May 4 arrested three local officials and one Myanmar national who were allegedly involved in the trafficking and kidnapping of Rohingya people for ransom.

Vietnam is committed to implementing the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Human Trafficking (COMMIT), the country’s Deputy Minister of Public Security, Le Quy Vuong, has declared.