Entire society requested to join police to combat human trafficking
The Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam in association with the British Embassy in Vietnam and the International Organization for Migration in Vietnam (IOM Vietnam) organized a workshop to review the prevention and fight against human trafficking over the past time in Thua Thien Hue.
The workshop was within the framework of the cooperation program between the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security and the British Home Office on combating human trafficking for the period 2022 – 2025.
The workshop was participated by delegates from under-ministerial public security departments, provincial-level police departments, the Ministry of Defence, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Women's Union as well as representatives from the British Embassy in Vietnam and the IOM Vietnam.
At the workshop, delegates reviewed the prevention and fight against human trafficking in 2023, as well as proposed an action plan for 2024, and discussed difficulties and challenges in preventing and combating trafficking in persons when criminals tend to take advantages of cyberspace to cheat young people by offering “soft and well-paid jobs”.
IOM’s experts also highlighted the situation of safe migration worldwide and the noxus between unsafe migration and human trafficking, so as to give priorities and strategic policies for combating human trafficking in 2024.
