In 2020, at age 19, Anh Nguyen Dang was offered an attractive job and better living conditions outside her village in central Vietnam’s Thua Thien Hue province.A human trafficking survivor is seen working at a local market in Thua Thien Hue province on June 9, 2024. In 2020, at age 19, Anh Nguyen Dang was offered an attractive job and better living conditions outside her village in central
The Vietnamese youngster found herself in the grip of coercion, catering to the desires of gambling patrons against her will.State-owned media reported authorities cracking down on an astounding 1,832 human trafficking cases and assisting 8,300 victims from 2012 to 2023.In 2022 alone, authorities identified 255 victims, comprising 102 females, 153 males, and 74 children — an increase from the 126 victims identified in the previous year, which included 114 females, 12 males, and 45 children.
Many, like Dang, were lured with promises of lucrative jobs abroad or the prospect of marrying foreigners, only to be trapped in a web of online scams, slave labor, forced marriages, sexual exploitation, and drug smuggling. She and six Malaysian women were kept in a prison-like room and forced to provide sex services for gamblers daily.
"I was made to perform domestic chores, cultivate onions, garlic, and corn, and care for the man and his elderly mother. I worked from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m.," Pham said."There was a time when I dozed off while spoon-feeding him rice, and he spewed the entire mouthful all over my face. Another time, his mother made me kneel in the cold night because I forgot to wash his feet in warm water," she said.
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