Preventing Cross-border Trafficking Of Women In The Greater Mekong Subregion Through Intergovernmental Cooperation

Human trafficking is currently one of the prevalent issues that proposes a challenge to modern society.The Greater Mekong Subregion is known to be having one of the highest concentrations of female trafficking victims globally and currently,Vietnam and China,two countries included in the GMS,are facing an issue of cross-border trafficking.The study thus aimed to analyse what causes human trafficking in the region,how GMS countries cooperate on regional and bilateral levels to combat the issue and what could be further done to prevent regional human trafficking.The study found that the GMS region is especially vulnerable to trafficking in women due to three main factors: the female sex,globalization and poverty which intersects and increases the individual's vulnerability.Furthermore,it was found that the TIP protocol by the United Nations has created a global human trafficking regime which has initiated and facilitated regional and bilateral antitrafficking cooperation in the GMS.However,the study argues,among other,that it is of utmost importance that policy-makers understand the push and pull-factors that shapes migration on bilateral and multilateral levels in order to effectively reduce the cross-border trafficking industry.