An anti-women and children trafficking project put into operation

The project Community-based prevention of trafficking in women and children, budgeted at US$ 340,000 and coordinated by the Central Vietnam Women’s Union, was approved by the Prime Minister o­n April 4, 2005. It is to be implemented from April 2005 to July 2006 in the 3 provinces of Tay Ninh, Hau Giang and Can Tho to help eliminate abuse of labour, especially trafficking in women and children within the country and across the border.

Funded by the Japan Government through the UN Human Security Fund, project activities will be focusing o­n raising the awareness of the children and young women in high-risk areas through the access to credit, vocational training, and income generating activities.

The project includes capacity building for related agencies, information sharing, and direct assistance to women, children and families in 13 communes of the targeted provinces.

The workshop introduced the overview of trafficking in women and children in Vietnam, cooperation mechanism among project stakeholders, criteria of project site selection, discussion and elaboration of factors causing women and children trafficking in the project provinces, recommendation of specific measures and increased participation of functional agencies in fighting against trafficking in women and children, etc.

Included in the project are origin communes of migrants who go abroad, to big cities or to labour absorbing places; communes where poor households prevail and villagers lack cultivated land, relying mainly o­n seasonal jobs.