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WESTMINSTER – It's nearly a month before Tammy Tran's trip to
Taiwan, but her bags are already packed. She will meet with a
Vietnamese woman who had traveled to the country to be a bride but
ended up as a sex slave for her husband and his friends.
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ORANGE, Calif. — The stories are heartbreaking.
There’s
the 19-year-old who suffers from schizophrenia because she had been
locked in a room with her mentally disabled husband, forced to watch
pornography.
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WESTMINSTER (VB) . - Liên Minh Người Việt Chống Tệ Nạn Buôn Người
(VietACT), Đức Cha Mai Thanh Lương (phụ tá Giám Mục Giáo Phận Orange),
LM Nguyễn Văn Hùng từ Đài Loan qua, ký giả Đinh Quang Anh Thái, và
nhiều trí thức hôm Thứ Bảy 8-10 đã kêu goi Liên Hiệp Quốc cùng giới
truyền thông quốc tế tiếp tay với đồng bào VN hải ngoai chận đứng tệ
nạn buôn người, bóc lột sức lao động của hàng trăm ngàn người Việt tai
Đài Loan, sau khi đưa ra những hình ảnh, sự kiện minh chứng tình trạng
công nhân và các cô gái VN bị đối xử như nô lệ trong thế kỷ 21 và cáo
giác thủ phạm chính là các tay môi giới lao động Đài Loan, và chính
sách goi là "xuất khẩu lao động" củaVN.
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Cambodia's thriving sex industry and its porous border with Vietnam has the country awash with women and girls swept away from their Mekong Delta homes and subjected to lives of exploitation. It costs $60 a year to keep a child in school in Vietnam, and that's not a light expense for families earning $300 to $400 a year, John Anner, the executive director of the East Meets West Foundation (EMW), writes in a piece posted by the Pacific News Service.
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Somewhere in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, a young girl sits in school. Let's call her Thuy. Thuy is 10 years old and studying in the fifth grade. A shy girl, she has large soft eyes and a fair complexion. She doesn't know it, but all around her malevolent forces are gathering that might condemn her to a life of suffering, shame and exploitation.
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The number of known cases of women and girls trafficked from Vietnam to China more than doubled last year, China's official Xinhua news agency has said.
Xinhua said 125 cases were detected of Vietnamese trafficked into China's Guangxi province, across the border.
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The VietACT website is currently being revamped from scratch. The previous website was used for temporary purposes, until a new website with more resources and articles can be developed. The new website is expected to launch mid-February.
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TRAFFICKING Vietnamese women and children increased last year to 125 cases, up 123 percent over the previous year, Guangxi regional public security officials said.
People smuggling increased in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region that shares land and water borders with Vietnam, police said.
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CHUNGLI, Taiwan (AP) ? Sanukorn Chanchana works 70 hour weeks at a minimum?wage job in northern Taiwan, but when his contract expires in May, he intends to sign up for another three?year stint far from home and family.
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