More than 100 cases of human trafficking recorded in Lao province in 2019

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN): Women in Luang Namtha province continued to fall prey to human traffickers last year, with many being tricked into fraudulent marriages.

Deputy Head of the province’s Department of Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking, Major Sivieng Somsipha, said the Counselling and Protection Centre for Women and Children had taken in 106 women who suffered from human trafficking or were at risk.