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Sex Trafficking in Ho Chi Minh City (2024)

A sex trafficking case from 2024 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 1 source on file.

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What happened

Vietnamese women trafficked to Chinese border casinos for sexual exploitation. Recruited through social media with modeling and hostess job offers. Accused: Vietnamese-Chinese trafficking network.

Response and intervention

Vietnamese border police and PSP. Network disrupted; casino operators charged in Vietnam. Pacific Links Foundation.

Forced Labor2021

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2021

Vietnam VN

Approximately 500 Vietnamese migrant workers were recruited through Vietnamese labor-export agencies to work on construction of the Linglong tire factory in Zrenjanin, Serbia. Workers reported indicators of forced labor including passport confiscation, restriction of movement and communication, excessive recruitment debt, threats and intimidation, withheld wages, forced overtime, inadequate housing and insufficient food. Some workers said they had been recruited with misleading information about the jobs and working conditions. Accused: Vietnamese recruitment agency and Serbian intermediaries.

1 source
Forced Labor2023

Pleiku, Gia Lai, Vietnam, 2023

Vietnam VN

Ethnic minority Vietnamese trafficked to Central Highlands coffee plantations. Debt bondage minimal wages hazardous conditions. Accused: Plantation operators and local labor brokers.

1 source
Forced Labor2010

Thailand, Vietnam, 2010

Vietnam VN

Savvy Businessmen promising employment to young Cambodian men in construction and on plantations then sold to Thai and Malaysian Fishing Boat Captains

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016