July 12, 2022 – Human trafficking from Vietnam to Europe has emerged as a big problem in recent years. The EU’s law enforcement agency, Interpol, is cracking down on smuggling rings and has seen some success.
Prevention, such as addressing misinformation and false job promises proliferated by traffickers, is still key, as vulnerable Vietnamese continue to be lured into forced labor and trafficking.
The issue of people trafficking from Vietnam came to the fore in October 2019 when 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered suffocated in a refrigerator truck parked outside an industrial estate in the UK county of Essex.
Several of the victims were believed to have been trafficked into Europe to work as forced laborers.
