by HK, March 30, 2017
Vietnam and the United Kingdom (UK) will increase their cooperation in the fight against human trafficking and modern slavery, state media reported.
The pledge was made during a workshop jointly held in the central city of Danang by the British Embassy in Vietnam and the United Nations Action for Cooperation Against Trafficking in Persons (UN-ACT).
The event, promoting cooperation opportunities in combating human trafficking and slavery today, drew in nearly 100 representatives from the UK’s Home Office, the National Crime Agency (NCA), the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children’s Child Trafficking Advice Centre, and the UN-ACT.
David Pennant, UK Home Office senior responsible officer for Vietnam, said the conference brought together modern slavery and human trafficking experts from the United Kingdom to promote the definition of modern slavery, introduce the United Kingdom’s world-leading Modern Slavery Act 2015 and share the United Kingdom’s expertise and best practices in identifying, investigating and disrupting acts of modern slavery.
“We are already working closely with the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam. I highly appreciate the efforts of our counterparts, over the years, to battle the crime, prosecute offenders and support human trafficking victims, helping them reintegrate into the community,” he said.
Speaking at the event, Colonel Le Van Chuong, deputy director general of the Police Department under Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security, highlighted the various memoranda of understanding signed by Vietnam and the UK on anti-human trafficking.
Since 2011, Vietnam has detected over 2,000 cases of human trafficking, with nearly 4,000 victims trafficked overseas.
Last week, in her report posted on The Guardian, Amelia Gentlemen reported that many Vietnamese children had been trafficked to the UK where they were forced to plant marijuana in closed buildings, and even in a nuclear bunker. You can read the whole report here: Trafficked and enslaved: the teenagers tending UK cannabis farms (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/25/trafficked-enslaved-teenagers-tending-uk-cannabis-farms-vietnamese)
Despite the fact that Vietnam is consistently one of the biggest source countries for trafficked slave labor into the UK, there has never been a successful prosecution of a people trafficker from Vietnam, said Kevin Hyland, UK’s independent anti-slavery commissioner. He also criticized UK’s police forces for failing to tackle the issue of enslaved Vietnamese teenagers being trafficked to the country to work in illegal cannabis farms.
Human trafficking occurs through various ways, such as illegal labor export, tourism, or on the pretext of visiting relatives abroad; the victims are then sold and sent to a third country.
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March 30, 2017
Vietnam, UK Cooperate to Combat Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
by HK, March 30, 2017
Vietnam and the United Kingdom (UK) will increase their cooperation in the fight against human trafficking and modern slavery, state media reported.
The pledge was made during a workshop jointly held in the central city of Danang by the British Embassy in Vietnam and the United Nations Action for Cooperation Against Trafficking in Persons (UN-ACT).
The event, promoting cooperation opportunities in combating human trafficking and slavery today, drew in nearly 100 representatives from the UK’s Home Office, the National Crime Agency (NCA), the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children’s Child Trafficking Advice Centre, and the UN-ACT.
David Pennant, UK Home Office senior responsible officer for Vietnam, said the conference brought together modern slavery and human trafficking experts from the United Kingdom to promote the definition of modern slavery, introduce the United Kingdom’s world-leading Modern Slavery Act 2015 and share the United Kingdom’s expertise and best practices in identifying, investigating and disrupting acts of modern slavery.
“We are already working closely with the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Vietnam. I highly appreciate the efforts of our counterparts, over the years, to battle the crime, prosecute offenders and support human trafficking victims, helping them reintegrate into the community,” he said.
Speaking at the event, Colonel Le Van Chuong, deputy director general of the Police Department under Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security, highlighted the various memoranda of understanding signed by Vietnam and the UK on anti-human trafficking.
Since 2011, Vietnam has detected over 2,000 cases of human trafficking, with nearly 4,000 victims trafficked overseas.
Last week, in her report posted on The Guardian, Amelia Gentlemen reported that many Vietnamese children had been trafficked to the UK where they were forced to plant marijuana in closed buildings, and even in a nuclear bunker. You can read the whole report here: Trafficked and enslaved: the teenagers tending UK cannabis farms (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/25/trafficked-enslaved-teenagers-tending-uk-cannabis-farms-vietnamese)
Despite the fact that Vietnam is consistently one of the biggest source countries for trafficked slave labor into the UK, there has never been a successful prosecution of a people trafficker from Vietnam, said Kevin Hyland, UK’s independent anti-slavery commissioner. He also criticized UK’s police forces for failing to tackle the issue of enslaved Vietnamese teenagers being trafficked to the country to work in illegal cannabis farms.
Human trafficking occurs through various ways, such as illegal labor export, tourism, or on the pretext of visiting relatives abroad; the victims are then sold and sent to a third country.