Pandemic deters human trafficking to China, but fight far from over

A human trafficking victim (L) walks with her family member in 2021. Photo courtesy of Blue Dragon

Measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic have also curtailed human trafficking from Vietnam to China, but traffickers are looking for other routes.

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.

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