AIPA President and Speaker of the Malaysian House of Representatives Tan Sri Johari Abdul said that a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released on May 28 warned that ASEAN youth are facing emerging threats from synthetic drugs, especially when they are disguised in products such as e-cigarettes.
The Ministry for the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (P2MI) is working with several state institutions equipped with cyber surveillance capabilities to protect citizens from human trafficking syndicates.
Belgian King Philippe's meetings with top leaders of Vietnam, the 16th session of the Vietnam-Belarus Intergovernmental Committee on Economic, Trade, and Scientific-Technical Cooperation, and Singapore's approval of the import of selected poultry meat and egg products from Vietnam are among news highlights on April 1 evening.
In a meeting with UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, both sides reaffirmed their strong cooperation in migration management, human trafficking investigation, and immigration control.
In response to this situation, Vietnam has issued various policies, legal frameworks, programmes, and important action plans to combat human trafficking and illegal immigration, and implemented comprehensive preventive and enforcement measures, demonstrating a firm commitment to eliminating this type of crime and contributing to the goal of “protecting human security.”
In 2024, Cambodia cracked down 197 cases relating to human trafficking and sexual exploitation, an increase of over 20% compared to the previous year. The authorities identified 523 victims and arrested 273 suspects and sent them to court, including 30 foreigners.
This came after the Philippine government arranged for the repatriation of three trafficking victims on March 16 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Representatives from the governments of Laos and Thailand met in the Lao capital Vientiane to discuss strategies to combat human trafficking.
Tang expressed his gratitude to the Thai government for its crucial role in coordinating with the Hong Kong side to rescue and ensure the safe return of 48 Hong Kong nationals, who had been lured into working for fraudulent call centres in Myanmar.
Vietnam considers combating human trafficking a crucial task to protect human rights in accordance with international law, including international conventions on human rights to which Vietnam is a signatory.
Vietnam and the UK committed to focusing on efforts to prevent illegal migration and human trafficking. Combined efforts also cover repatriation and legal migration routes, implementing solutions to prevent illegal migration, capacity-building training on migration procedures, improving awareness-raising and information exchange.
The proposal was jointly submitted by police, army officers, and the Interior Ministry as a measure to strengthen efforts against human and drug trafficking along the Thailand-Cambodia border.
The Asean National Police (ASEANAPOL) will prioritise the elimination of scam call centres linked to trafficking in persons and forced criminal activities as part of its regional action plan this year, Director for Plans and Programmes of the ASEANAPOL Secretariat Police Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Nguyen Huu Ngoc has said.
Thailand’s Government is putting together a six-month campaign tackling drug problems, call centre gangs, and human trafficking, Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on January 20.
The National Assembly (NA) on November 28 passed the revised Law on Human Trafficking Prevention and Control with approval from 454 out of 455 deputies participating in the voting.
Continuing the agenda of the 8th session, the 15th National Assembly on October 22 heard a report and provided feedback on the draft revised Law on Prevention and Control of Human Trafficking.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) supports and commits to cooperating with the UK side to fight human trafficking and illegal migration, Minister of Public Security Sen. Lieut. Gen. Luong Tam Quang told Secretary of State for the Home Department Yvette Cooper in their phone talks on October 10.
Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto has called for cooperation among ASEAN countries to tackle human trafficking.
The Department of Drug-Related Crime Prevention and Control under the Border Guard Command of Vietnam and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Vietnam on October 2 jointly organised a ceremony to launch a project to enhance capacity to prevent and combat human trafficking in Vietnam's land and sea border areas in the face of the risk of human trafficking and related cross-border crimes.
Cambodia clamped down on 104 human trafficking and sexual exploitation cases in the first half of 2024, the country’s National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT) reported.