Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Vietnam Trafficking Activist | June 20, 2014 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

Source:  PBS

'Vietnam’s modernized cities create an appeal for the newly educated and workers from rural areas. Across the border in China, a shortage of young brides has led to a system of deceiving Vietnamese into forced labor and marriages. “Whenever you have migration, which is a positive driver and a positive force,” says Florian Forster of the United Nations Organization for Migration, “then you have also the exploitation and abuse coming with it. And that leads to trafficking.” The California-based Pacific Links Foundation offers safe haven for young women who escape human traffickers on the Vietnam-China border . “The girls that we see, they are given a choice,” says the foundation’s co-founder and board president Diep Vuong, “Do you want to marry somebody or do you want work in the brothels?”

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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2014/06/20/june-20-2014-vietnam-trafficking/23429/



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