Human Trafficking in Vietnam: Patterns of exploitation, risk factors, and access to support

On this page you can download our report Human Trafficking in Vietnam: Patterns of exploitation, risk factors, and access to support, produced by Asylos and kindly funded by the Trust for London.

Building on Asylos and ARC Foundation’s previous work on trafficking, Asylos launched a new project in 2025 that intends to address information gaps about trafficked persons who are seeking international protection, and/or who have been referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) in the UK. The report was initiated in response to a need identified by legal representatives and anti-trafficking practitioners in the asylum field for more recent and updated information on the conditions faced by trafficked men, women, and children in Vietnam. This project created the opportunity to update and expand on Asylos and ARC’s 2020 Country of Origin Information (COI) report Vietnam: Returned Victims of Trafficking: Issues Affecting Likelihood of Re-Trafficking.

This new COI report describes the conditions experienced by Vietnamese survivors of trafficking within Vietnam, including those who have been returned to the country, and explores risk factors of re-trafficking. It also briefly highlights the accessibility of protection mechanisms in Vietnam for asylum seekers and undocumented individuals who are trafficking victims. Our report combines timely, publicly available information with new insights from interviews and correspondence with five experts with specialised knowledge in Human Trafficking and Vietnam.

We hope that the report will help fill the gap in the COI literature and contribute to fairer, more transparent, and evidence-based decision-making about this topic.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the size of this report, Asylos is working on publishing individual summaries of each of the seven sections. These will be made available here as they are completed.

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