Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Do, thank you very much for your testimony today and for very concrete recommendations to the subcommittee as to how we should proceed.
The Vietnamese government continues to be a violator in a broad area of human rights and is among the worst violators of religious freedom in the world. The international community must exert pressure on the Vietnamese government to cease these abuses against its own citizens.
I am particularly concerned about the trafficking of women, men, and children around the region. It is my understanding that women are sold as mail-order brides or surrogate mothers, men are often sold into indentured servitude, and the most vulnerable citizens, children, are exploited for the purposes of sex, labour, and forced begging or bonded labour.
Could you provide our committee with additional information about human trafficking?