By Viet Anh November 30, 2021 | 10:32 am GMT+7
Measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic have also curtailed human trafficking from Vietnam to China, but traffickers are looking for other routes.
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| A human trafficking victim (L) walks with her family member in 2021. Photo courtesy of Blue Dragon |
In the fall of 2020, when officials in a remote province in China began to check identities to combat Covid transmission, they found a 50-year-old woman in a poor family without any identity papers.
“It turned out she was a Vietnamese victim trafficked to China around 35 years ago,” Dinh Thi Minh Chau, a senior psychologist at the Blue Dragon Foundation, a Hanoi organization that works to rescue trafficking victims, said.
The woman from northern Vietnam had agreed to go with a person in her village to find a job because her family was too poor.
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