Trafficking in Women and Girls for Sexual Exploitation Is a Crime and Human Rights Violation

Abstract

Abtract: Although the Vietnamese Government has many policies and laws to protect women’s rights and prevent violence against women, trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation is increasing rapidly and complexly in Vietnam. Girls and young women from many provinces in Vietnam are trafficked daily to China through border gate of China of Lao Cai, Lang Son, Cao Bang and Quang Ninh in the North, An Giang, Kien Giang, Dong Thap and Tay Ninh in the South. Many new chains of trafficking women and girls have been established and they are difficult to indentify therefore polices and border guards cannot control all of them. Women, girls and teenagers are trafficked victims who are poor, jobless, low education and ethnic minorities. Trafficked women and girls are sent directly to foreign men or brothels, karaokes, bars, where they are often suffered from post traumatic stress. They experience long-term torture caused by traffickers such as multiple gang rape, severe punishment like beating and starve which results in long-term health problems as physical injuries, psychological and mental disorder, even almost of them have risk of different kinds of diseases, STDs (sexual transmitted diseases), HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The situation of trafficking in women and girls are seriously damaging women health and human rights. Therefore, the intervention anti-trafficking in women and girls for sexual exploitation is not only in one country but also around the world. Anti trafficking in person is actually a difficult action because of poverty, sex demand, gender in equality and violate human rights everywhere. We should getting together to make more efforts to intervene anti trafficking in person. The contributions of civil society network and community people are crucial and important because they are aware who are traffickers and who are trafficked victims.