Corruption & human trafficking

Southeast Asia Has a Plan to Tackle Human Trafficking, but There's an Elephant in the Room

Late last month, six Asian nations came together to renew a decade-long joint commitment to battle human trafficking. But it was a show of unity with a critical flaw — corruption went entirely unmentioned.
First established in 2004, the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) has seen Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam establish a series of Sub-regional Plans of Action, the fourth of which was signed in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh on April 29.