We use cookies to improve our service for you. You can find more information in our data protection declaration. A new report says that children from Vietnam trafficked to the UK are often exploited by human smugglers and forced to work in nail salons and as prostitutes.
Europe is ill-equipped to identify and handle the victims. She fainted and woke up later in a house in China. After a few days, she was forced to travel and found herself in Europe, although she was never told which country she was in. In one instance, when the lorry was stopped in France, Dung was sent to jail. She wanted to tell the police about her situation, but there was no translator, and she was soon let off, only to be captured by her kidnappers again.
Once in the UK, Dung was forced into prostitution to pay back the money her traffickers had spent to get her to the UK. Over a period of one and a half years, researchers investigated the issue of human trafficking from Vietnam to the UK and throughout Europe, specifically Poland, the Czech Republic, France and the Netherlands. According to latest figures by the National Referral Mechanism, which identifies and protects victims, more than 3, Vietnamese adults and children were identified as victims of trafficking.
The factors responsible for pushing people towards illegal immigration included poverty and the pressure on young people to improve the economic situation of their families. A typical journey took children from Vietnam to Russia by plane, and then overland through Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands and France, according to the authors. In France, the police didn't help me and my traffickers found me again. When in the UK, I was treated like a criminal.
One thing I would say to the people in Europe is, if it happened to your children, you wouldn't ignore it. One thing I would ask the UK government is, why are the victims the ones you treat like criminals? Chinese police rescued 89 kidnapped infants in a crackdown on child trafficking launched this year after online reports of widespread abductions sparked public outrage, state media reported on Wednesday.
