GTIP Recommendations for Vietnam

 

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Below are 12 recommendations made by the United States Department of State Office To Monitor and Combat Human Trafficking to the government of Vietnam:

1. Criminally prohibit and prescribe punishment for labor trafficking offenses;
2. Criminally prosecute those involved in forced labor, the recruitment of persons for the purpose of labor exploitation, or fraudulent labor recruitment;
3. Develop formal procedures for the identification of labor trafficking victims, relying on recognized indicators of forced labor, such as the confiscation of travel documents by employers or labor brokers;
4. Identify Vietnamese migrant workers who have been subjected to forced labor and provide them with victim services;
5. Increase efforts to protect Vietnamese workers going abroad for work through labor export companies;
6. Ensure that state-licensed recruitment agencies do not engage in fraud or charge illegal commissions for overseas employment;
7. Take measures to ensure that victims of labor trafficking are not threatened or otherwise punished for protesting labor conditions or for leaving their place of employment, in Vietnam or abroad;
8. Ensure victim protection and assistance services are provided to male victims and victims of labor trafficking;
9. Ensure the workers have effective legal redress from labor trafficking;
10. Make greater efforts to work closely with destination governments to investigate and prosecute trafficking cases, including labor trafficking cases;
11. Improve inter-agency cooperation on anti-trafficking efforts; and
12. Implement and support a visible anti-trafficking awareness campaign directed at clients of the sex trade.