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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

The Costs of Human Trafficking

American Samoa 2000

Jordan 2008

Malaysia 2009

The Real Faces…

Russia 2012

China 2011Taiwan 2010

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

Example: Russia

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

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