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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Overseas sex tours and the ongoing Euro 2012 football

Overseas sex tours and the ongoing Euro 2012 football championship have made cracking down on prostitution and gambling increasingly difficult, said Ho Chi Minh City police at a conference on Tuesday.

The police said a trend has emerged in which Vietnamese prostitutes travel abroad to provide the service, news website VietNamNet reported.

Early this month, HCMC police busted a major sex ring run by beauty queens and models Vo Thi My Xuan from the Mekong Delta and Thien Kim from the city, which paired Vietnamese prostitutes and clients for three-day sex tours to Singapore at a cost of US$25,000.

The ring has exposed the city's sex industry as “sophisticated” and “complicated,” according to a police statement at the conference.

It said prostitutes have both gone abroad looking for customers and brought wealthy Vietnamese men with them.

So far this year, the city police have busted 43 prostitution operations, sending 46 prostitutes to rehabilitation and counseling centers.

The gambling situation is complex as well, said the police who have seized more than VND2.6 billion ($124,550) and nearly $3,500 in cash from 857 raids.

The police said more gambling activity is being conducted via phone calls and online which are difficult to trace and have made it tough for police to gather evidence or catch perpetrators red-handed.

They said they would work hard to control football gambling during the Euro 2012.

In related news, police at the conference said they have seized nearly 20 kilograms of heroin in different forms this year and that cases of drug trafficking are down five percent from the same period last year.



Source: http://www.thanhniennews.com/index/pages/20120613-prostitution-gambling-in-hcmc-getting-tough-police-say.aspx

Trafficking in Persons Report 2012

Now the Trafficking In Persons report or TIP report of the State department of The US is now launched to the public. Please visit the link and find out which Tier your country are in!



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AAT Reg. Thai prevention actions enable women and minors to keep safe from sexual exploitation and trafficking and encourage victims to leave prostitution. Prevention actions are implemented in several ways: We set up systems in communities at risk to prevent vulnerable women and minors from being trafficked and to be able to protect themselves. We detect missing persons and potential victims for protection on their transit stage before reaching their final destination. We disseminate information in strategic places on trafficking and self protection. We encourage and provide new alternatives to the most vulnerable groups of people and the victims themselves.

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AAT Reg. Thai protection actions consist of saving group at risk or victims from situations of exploitation and transferring them to appropriate safe places.

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After been protected from situations of exploitation, AAT Reg. Thai assists victims until their return home. We assist them to access their rights and prepare them for safe return and community reintegration.

We identify the ones kept in detention centers who do not have access to protection and transfer them to adapted centers.

In adapted centers, we provide them with legal support to receive compensations. We also provide them assistance to recover from their mental and physical problems. We then assist them to prepare for their future and build their capacity for community actions. Finally, we prepare them for the different steps of repatriation. More / Results

 
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AAT Reg. Thai participates to develop repatriation mechanisms between origin and destination countries and support embassies and relevant agencies for repatriation. AAT Reg. Thai follows up with them just after their return. More / Results

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