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Anti - human trafficking  acctivitise in Viet Nam
Presenter Mr. Nguyen Duy Thuan Ministry of
Public Security Leader of Vietnam delegation 
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We will share with you...

• 1- Policy of Vietnamese Government on Anti-human
  Trafficking
• 2- General situation of human trafficking in
  Vietnam
• 3- Prevention measures
• 4- Challenges and Solutions

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1- Policy

• On March 29, 2011, Law on Prevention,
  Suppression against Human Trafficking was
  approved by the National Assembly
• Come into valid from January 1, 2012
• On July 14, 2004, Vietnamese Government approved
  the National Program on Human Trafficking
  Prevention (herein after referred to as 130/CP
  Program) for period 2004-2010, focusing on 4
  Projects
• Project 1 Conduct propagandization and awareness
  raising on anti-TIP in community
• Project 2 Investigate and suppress traffickers
• Project 3 Receive and support victims for their
  re-integration into community
• Project 4 Develop and complete legal documentary
  system on anti-TIP

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1- Policy

• On August 18, 2011, Vietnamese Government
  approved the National Action Program on Human
  Trafficking Prevention and Suppression for period
  2011-2015, focusing on 5 projects
• Project 1 Strengthen propagandization
  education on law and policy in order to raise the
  awareness and enhance communitys skills of
  prevention and suppression against human
  trafficking in charge by Ministry of
  Information and Communication
• Project 2 Increase efficiency in suppression
  against human trafficking in charge by
  Ministry of Public Security
• Project 3 Receive, identify, protect and
  support returnees of trafficking in charge by
  Ministry of Labor Invalids and Social Affairs
• Project 4 Establish, complete law and policy
  documents system on anti-human trafficking as
  well as law policy monitoring in charge by
  Ministry of Public Security
• Project 5 Enhance international collaboration
  in anti-human trafficking in charge by
  Ministry of Public Security

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1- Policy

• At Central level
• Establish the Steering Committee on National
  Defense and Anti-TIP, headed by (former) Deputy
  Prime Minister (present Minister of Police) and
  14 leaders of concerned Ministries as members
  (herein after referred to as 130/CP Steering
  Committee)
• Set up the Operation Regulation of the Steering
  Committee
• Ministry of Public Security is assigned to be
  Standing Office of the Committee
• At local level Local Steering Committee is
  established as well, headed by President of
  Peoples Committee, and leaders of concerned
  Departments as members. Operation regulation is
  set up.
• Joint circular issued by Ministry of Finance
  Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs,
  providing guidelines on the implementation of
  policies on supporting returnees
• Joint circular issued by Ministry of Public
  Security Ministry of National Defense
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Labor,
  Invalids and Social Affairs, providing guidelines
  on Victim Identification, Reception and
  Supporting for Re-integration of returnees
• Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs
  issued the Circular on Guidelines on the
  establishment of Centers for supporting victims

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2-General situation on human trafficking

• 2009 2011 1369 cases of human trafficking, in
  which 2001 traffickers, 2261 victims, with
  details as below
• 2009 395 cases/748 traffickers /869 victims
• 2010 429 cases/ 683 traffickers / 671 victims
• 2011 454 cases/ 670 traffickers/ 821 victims
• Compared to 2010, total cases increased 5.8,
  traffickers decreased 1.9 and victims increased
  for 22 people.
• Hot provinces where human trafficking occurs the
  most Lao Cai (31 cases in...), Nam Dinh (18
  cases in...), Lai Chau (17 cases in...), Lang Son
  (16 cases in...), Ha Giang (16 cases in...).
• Most of these provinces are located in the North
  of Vietnam, are mountainous areas and borders
  with Cambodia, China...

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2- General situation on human trafficking

• Human trafficking in Vietnam is becoming more and
  more complicated, also hard to face up with
• Under various forms
• Increasing trend with more serious nature
• Larger scale, occur nationwide, and crossing
  border
• More sophisticated and foxy tricks of human
  trafficking
• Victims of human trafficking
• Women and children, who are trafficked for sexual
  labor exploitation, forced marriage, adoption
  etc.
• Teenagers who dream of pursuing better life in
  short time
• Recently, men are also trafficked
• Domestic cases are discovered these days
• Marriage matching between Vietnamese women and
  foreigners are becoming more complicated in Ho
  Chi Minh city and some other provinces in
  Southern of Vietnam

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3- Prevention Measures

• Ministry of Public Security
• Social prevention
• Professional prevention
• Pay attention to collecting information and
  related documents esp. for cases where women
  children are absent from hometown, also
  suspicious criminals
• Enhance utilization of high-technique methods in
  investigation and information collection etc.
  Focus on monitoring household, number of citizens
  in areas, esp. those who leave for other
  provinces.
• Keep monitoring strictly immigration
• Collaborate closely with Border Guard for
  monitoring the border areas
• Enhance investigation in order to eliminate
  trafficking rings
• Investigate thoroughly
• Apply strict sentence to criminals
• Develop international cooperation

• Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs
• Keep monitoring employment services, esp. labor
  exporting and foreign labor recruitment in
  Vietnam
• Strengthen communication and awareness raising
  activities for the community, enhance trafficking
  prevention skills, esp. for vulnerable group of
  women and children
• Provide jobs

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3- Prevention Measures

• Border Guard
• Purposes of prevention
• Eliminate social facts that are causes of human
  trafficking
• Prevent human trafficking, discover cases timely
  and apply strict sentences to criminals
• Educate criminals and help them become helpful to
  the society
• Prevention measures
• Social prevention
• Communicate and educate, raise awareness of
  ethnic minority community in border areas.
• Participate in social economic development of
  the border areas which contributes to the
  enhancement of living condition and creation of
  jobs for women in the areas
• Participate in strengthening the local politic
  system of border areas
• Professional prevention
• Keep monitoring strictly the situation of border
  areas, esp. hot areas
• Implement chronically professions
• Enhance patrolling and monitoring strictly people
  and transportation means who travel acress the
  borders
• Actively set up and implement plans for human
  trafficking prevention in the areas

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3- Prevention Measures

• Womens Union
• 1. Communication activities
• Have documentary films on anti-TIP broadcasted
  through Vietnam Television and Vietnam radio
• Have articles on anti-TIP posted on Website of
  Central Womens Union and other newspapers
• Conduct direct communication at community and
  distribute pumphlet etc,.
• Set up models of anti-TIP
• 2. Help high-risk groups and returnees with their
  social re-integration
• Provide vocational training and jobs to high-risk
  groups and victims
• Provide loans to women of high-risk groups,
  trafficked victims, and those who return from
  forced marriage

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4- Challenges and Solutions

• Repatriation Reception of victims
• Ministry of Public Security
• Challenges
• Difficulties in collecting related information
  and evidences in order to identify victims, also
  to issue identification paper for their return
• The in-cooperation of returnees due to their
  depression causes difficulties for investigation,
  also they are afraid of the revenge of
  traffickers
• Solutions
• Develop the standard process for conducting
  related procedures for victim identification,
  support and protection. Pay attention to those
  who return from abroad.
• Secure personnel information of victims, protect
  victims from being harmed or threatened
• Provide legal support and apply social policies
  to victims timely which enable victims to reach
  better physical as well as psychological
  condition, re-integrate well into the society.

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4- Challenges and Solutions

• Repatriation Reception of victims
• Border Guard
• Challenges
• Not yet shelter or reception house for victims at
  Border Guard station
• Initial skills such as psychological, legal or
  medical etc. skills are not yet good enough
• Solutions
• More closely and timely collaborate with MOLISA /
  DOLISA / centers under DOLISA to send victims to
  social protection centers
• Make proposal to the Government, also call for
  support of NGOs in establishing reception house,
  shelter for victims at focal stations
• Provide training for strengthening initial skills
  for officers

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4- Challenges and Solutions

• Repatriation Reception of victims
• MOLISA
• Challenges
• Much difficulties in collecting exact number of
  returnees.
• Capacity, awareness of officers responsible for
  victims identification, reception and supporting
  at some local provinces do not yet meet
  requirement.
• Infrastructure has not yet met the requirement
  for reception (accommodation, hygiene condition,
  medical condition etc. also daily allowance
  support for victims is still too limited)
• Solutions
• Vietnamese Government is going to approve the
  Decree on regulations for medical service
  agencies, supporting regime, and procedures for
  victims supporting
• MOLISA is going to develop the Project on victims
  reception, identification, protection and
  supporting in order to enhance the efficiency of
  supporting services, also facilitate more the
  victims with stable jobs and social re-integration

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4- Challenges and Solutions

• Repatriation Reception of victims
• Womens Union
• Challenges
• Communication and propagandization on anti-TIP
  have not yet been done throughout the communicaty
• Capacity and awareness of some responsible
  officers are still limited, esp. those who are at
  local provinces
• Awareness of community in general and women in
  particular, esp. those at mountainous areas are
  still limited
• Most of victims and their families are afraid of
  being revenged by traffickers and criminals,
  which makes them hesitate to collaborate with
  officers for investigation
• Social-economic situation, limited living
  condition and other social issues are also causes
  of human trafficking
• Solutions
• Implement comprehensively and synchronously
  (multi-sector) communication and propagandization
  on anti-TIP
• Provide continuous training to enhance capacity
  of officeres, reporters, and communicators at all
  levels
• Develop the volunteer network at grassroot level
• Call for support of all the community for
  anti-TIP, victims and witness protection

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4- Challenges and Solutions

• Victims supporting
• Medical support
• Social support
• Challenges
• Most of victims, esp. those who were sexually
  abused hesitate to tell their stories and the
  truth to the social workers, which cause
  difficulties for psychological treatment
• The discrimination of the community against
  victims
• Solutions

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4- Challenges and Solutions

• Legal support
• Re-integration support
• Challenges
• Limited financial budget which causes
  difficulties in implementing vocational training
  and creating jobs for victims, hence, the
  re-integration of victims has not been ensured
  stably.
• Even, there are irresponsibilities in allocating
  the supporting budget for the victims at some
  local provinces
• Solutions
• MOLISA is now working on the Regulations of
  minimum standards for supporting victims and
  will have this contributory legally to victims
  supporting and protection
• Monitor the allocation of financial support for
  victims at local provinces, also integrate such
  support into social security programs, also
  monitor the support for conducting surveys on
  returnees focusing on high-risk groups,
  therefore, timely support the social
  re-integration

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Some issues we would like to discuss and learn in
this training.

• how the different departments and agencies
  cooperated.
• How they decided on who would do what, when and
  how.
• The situation of foreign laborers working in your
  country, especially of Vietnam people?
• Current situation of the marriage of Vietnamese
  women to get married in recent years? Laws in
  your country regulations for marriage problems
  like elements, especially the responsibilities of
  marriage brokers with foreign elements?

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Thank you for your attention!