The report is part of an AAV three-year sub-regional project on “Combating cross border trafficking of Vietnamese women and children” aimed at building a trans-national network to provide better support for Vietnamese women and child victims.

According to the report, Vietnamese women and children being emigrants or sold to Cambodia and Taiwan (China) are those who have come from poor households. Most of them are uneducated and had little opportunity to engage in economic activities in their native places.

Apart from a small number of women enjoying real happiness after traveling abroad, most of  other women have been forced into prostitution to be abused and exploited.

In Taiwan, many women have become slaves in marriages, household helpers and prostitutes. Despite being aware of risks caused by their emigration,  they still have to run away from home  to become vulnerable to human trafficking.

AAV said that many women in China have been tricked into going abroad in a hope of getting a steady job. Others have been forced to marry or work in brothels while some having babies have no other choice but to live with Chinese husbands despite hard living conditions.

Most of prostitutes have been sent to rehabilitation centres after the Chinese Government recently raided brothels.