Laos

Laos is a country located in Southeast Asia, bordered by Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar. The country has a diverse population, with many ethnic groups and languages. Laos has made significant progress in reducing poverty and improving access to education and healthcare in recent years. However, the country still faces challenges related to economic growth, environmental sustainability, and human rights abuses. The country has been working to address these issues through various initiatives and reforms aimed at promoting economic development and social justice.

 

81 human trafficking cases prevented in Myanmar between 2020 and 2021
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81 human trafficking cases prevented in Myanmar between 2020 and 2021

YANGON, Dec 18 (Eleven Media Group/ANN): Myanmar have prevented 81 cases of human trafficking, helping 840 people between 2020 and 2021, said Brigadier General Aung Htay Myint, head of the Transnational Crime Division. He revealed the information during the 5th inter-ministerial meeting of the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking – COMMIT, which took on…

Guide to Investigating Organized Crime in the Golden Triangle: Chapter 4 — Human Trafficking
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Guide to Investigating Organized Crime in the Golden Triangle: Chapter 4 — Human Trafficking

Table of Contents | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 Illustration: Nodjadong Boonprasert for GIJN The networks that smuggle people through the Golden Triangle are essentially the same as those that trade in drugs. The reason is simple: only those gangs know the routes and have the…

Info campaign needed to address trafficking of Filipinos abroad —Ople | GMA News Online
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Info campaign needed to address trafficking of Filipinos abroad —Ople | GMA News Online

An information campaign targeting Filipinos seeking to work abroad is necessary to help protect them from groups that will recruit them to work as scammers, Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople said Wednesday. In a TV interview, Ople said that aside from Myanmar, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is also looking at human trafficking incidents…

Australia Signs Anti-Slavery Accord with Thailand
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Australia Signs Anti-Slavery Accord with Thailand

Sydney — Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has signed an agreement in Thailand to support a new training center aimed at fighting human trafficking. The training center will give more help to victims of trafficking and will also make them not liable for any crimes committed during time as forced or coerced laborers. The…

Cambodia’s modern slavery nightmare: the human trafficking crisis overlooked by authorities
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Cambodia’s modern slavery nightmare: the human trafficking crisis overlooked by authorities

Despite promises by government to eradicate trafficking rings, people are still being sold in Cambodia and forced to run online scams At 3.28am on 29 June 2021, Xu Mingjian crept out of a dorm room inside a gated compound in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, and made his way to the second floor, where his friend, another victim…

Australia signs deal to counter scourge of human trafficking
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Australia signs deal to counter scourge of human trafficking

Singapore: Australia will on Wednesday complete a deal with Thailand to counter human trafficking as the Albanese government confronts disturbing revelations of sexual exploitation of migrants by a criminal operation on Australian soil. In Bangkok for the latest leg of her south-east Asian charm offensive, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong will sign off on Australia’s…

Inside The Crypto Human Trafficking Rings In Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos – Inc42
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Inside The Crypto Human Trafficking Rings In Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos – Inc42

While the GainBitcoin scam involved more than INR 90K Cr, this particular story of human trafficking and crypto fraud seems even more chilling and heinous Victims are forced to manage fake social media profiles and collect personal and financial data from people who can be potentially trapped in crypto fraud or online betting The company…

Job scams: NGOs to send memorandum to push UN to intervene – The Sun Daily
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Job scams: NGOs to send memorandum to push UN to intervene – The Sun Daily

SEPANG: The Malaysian International Humanitarian Organisation (MHO) and the Malaysian Community Crime Care (MCCC) will send a memorandum to the United Nations (UN) Office in Putrajaya to call attention to the job scam and human trafficking syndicates in Myanmar involving Malaysians. MHO secretary-general Datuk Hishamuddin Hashim said the memorandum will be brought to the UN…

Singapore cops monitoring potential human trafficking of scam victims held captive after being lured to work overseas
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Singapore cops monitoring potential human trafficking of scam victims held captive after being lured to work overseas

There has been one police report since 2021 where a complainant claimed that he had heard about Singaporean victims possibly kept against their will to work for scam syndicates overseas. — TODAY pic Tuesday, 04 Oct 2022 8:48 AM MYT SINGAPORE, Oct 4 — The police are monitoring potential human trafficking of scam victims who…

From lucrative job offer to human trafficking trap | MalaysiaNow
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From lucrative job offer to human trafficking trap | MalaysiaNow

Susan (not her real name) spends her days worrying about her son who has been detained by the authorities in Cambodia. According to the Malaysian embassy there, he is being held because he travelled to the country without the necessary documents. Speaking to MalaysiaNow, however, Susan said the 24-year-old was in fact trafficked to Cambodia…