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COMBATINGModern-day Slavery:
Roles and Challenges
COMBATINGModern-day Slavery:
Roles and Challenges
Sharing our experience• Our goal: To abolish human trafficking altogether
• Since 1999: Have rescued and/or assisted some 5,000 victims mainly Vietnamese but also Filipinos, Chinese, Indonesians, Cambodians, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Nepalese, Ukrainians, Mexicans, Venezuelans…
• Working with governments and NGOs in US, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Russia and rescue operations in scores of countries
Sex Trafficking of Vietnamese young women to Russia (Prepared by BPSOS)
Victims back home after release from captivity
Roles and Challenges of Civil Society• The 4 P’s:
• The driving force in Prevention and Protection• Support for law enforcement in Prosecution• Partnerships: NGOs-NGOs, government-NGOs,
destination country – source country
• Challenges:• Limited experience and resources• Insufficient in number• Mistrust between NGOs and governments• Powerful human trafficking syndicates• Complicity of government officials• Difficulty in transnational operation and collaboration
Our Model• Focus on victims, then NGOs, then governments• Work from both ends: receiving and sending
Vietnam: Worst Case ScenarioHuman trafficking under government’s tutelage
“Privatized” forms of human trafficking
- Labor export program- Forced labor in rehab centers and
prisons- Hundreds of thousands of victims
- Sale of women and children into the sex industry
- Child labor within Vietnam- Tens of thousands of victims
Involving government agencies, tens of thousand victims, over $4 billion business
Involving small-time criminals, thousands of victims, and millions of US dollars per year
Not allowing NGOs to work on these issues or gain access to victims; threats against and persecution of victims who speak out
Allowing some NGOs to do work in a few locations; some assistance (shelter, vocational training) provided to repatriated victims
Suppress information about these forms of modern-day slavery
Play up its efforts to combat these forms in order to cover up the others.
Victims FirstIntervention: Rescue and assist victims in destination countries
Gather information on trafficking syndicates
Prevention: Educate and equip vulnerable
peoples in source country
Prevention in Vietnam
• 40,000 fliers distributed in 6 northern provinces• Tips leading to the rescue of victims in Russia, China,
Malaysia, Taiwan• List of “unscrupulous” labor export companies• Help line for people in Vietnam to call and verify
prospective employers
Next: NGOsDestination: Build
capacity in rescue and protection
Transnational case management and
partnership
Source: Build capacity in
reintegration and prevention
Partnerships
• International: JTIP, US embassies, foreign governments, international organizations
• National: NGOs in different countries• Transnational: partnership with Chab Dai (Cambodia) to place a
Cambodian caseworker in Malaysia
Then: GovernmentDestination: advocate for legal reforms and
monitor law enforcement
Collaboration between
governments, facilitated by NGOs
Source: press for legal reforms and
proper law enforcement
Political / Diplomatic Pressure for Legal Reforms
US2000
Malaysia2007
Taiwan2009
Viet Nam2011
UN2000
Russia2012
Systemic: Labor Trafficking Syndicate in Vietnam
DOLISA
Employers
Outsourcing Companies
Embassies
Ministry of Public Security Ministry of Health
MOLISAOverseas Labor
Management Administration
Ministry of FinanceState Banks
Labor Export
CompaniesLabor Export Companies
Subsidiaries of Labor Export Companies
Subsidiaries of Labor Export Companies
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Our Operations
• Taiwan• Malaysia• Thailand• Cambodia: through partners• Vietnam: through faith-based
organizations• Other locations: rescue missions• Support: US, Canada, Germany