Thailand's Government announced on July 1 that it will delay the enforcement of a new labour law after thousands of migrant workers fled to neighbouring countries, including Myanmar and Cambodia, this week.
Nậm Pồ is the most difficult border district of the northwestern province of Dien Bien. Over the years, human trafficking has been serious in the district.
Vietnam and China highlighted increasing the information exchange at all levels to make the fight against human traffickers more efficient this year at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on April 18.
Authorities, departments and sectors of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho were urged to focus on combating human trafficking in the locality, with reports of the crime increasing.
The UK Embassy in Vietnam and the UN Action for Cooperation Against Trafficking in Persons organised a conference on human trafficking and modern slavery in the central city of Da Nang on March 29.
The number of criminal cases in 2016 was 54,511, a reduction of 4.4 percent from 2016 but organised crimes have shown signs of increasing in some localities.
Malaysian police on January 17 rescued eight foreign women, including five Vietnamese, thought to be victims of a human trafficking ring when raiding an entertainment house in Malacca state.
The Malaysian Immigration Department has rescued 59 Bangladeshi people who are victims of human trafficking during a raid in Desa Petaling, said head of the department Mustafar Ali on January 7.
Minister of Public Security To Lam and Troy Grant, Minister of Police and Justice of Australia’s New South Wales state agreed to expand cooperation between the two agencies in fighting crimes at their meeting in Sydney on December 13.
Foreign diplomats and representatives from non-government organisations in Indonesia participated in a fact-finding trip on improving women capability and children protection in Aceh province.
Officials and police from Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia met in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on October 18 to discuss cooperation in fighting human trafficking and labour exploitation.
Vietnam’s representative agencies in the Republic of Korea (RoK), China and Malaysia have been working to provide protection services for Vietnamese nationals in the countries.
Education and training play an important role in raising public awareness of human trafficking, heard a seminar on educating women and girls about human trafficking in Geneva on September 27.
An ASEAN conference on the application of laws, policies and practices to the identification, management and treatment of victims of trafficking was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 28.
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