Women, children trafficking on borderlines in focus
The police and border guards will intensify their operations in 2008 to crack down on women and children trafficking acrossing borderlines with China and Cambodia.
According to Colonel Dang Quoc Nhat, vice director of the Department of Social Order Crime Investigation under the Ministry of Public Security, women and children smuggling in Viet Nam is very complicated and serious with increasingly cunning methods in many forms.
Between 2005-2007, as many as 900 trafficking cases involving 1,600 traffickers, 2,200 smuggled women and children, were detected.
Policemen also uncovered several rings that trafficked women and children from
Economic difficulties, unemployment and people’s poor education, especially those in mountainous and remote areas, are major reasons leading to the increased human trafficking.
