Trafficking in Women and Children in the Mekong Subregion.Few, if any, resources are available to women and children smuggled smug·gle v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles v.tr. 1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. 2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth. across international borders primarily for sexual purposes; they have no legal status as illegal immigrants illegal immigrant n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa. (See: alien) , their social image is scarred by stigma stigma: see pistil. Stigma mark of Cain God’s mark on Cain, a sign of his shame for fratricide. [O. T.: Genesis 4:15] scarlet letter , their health is all too often imperilled. This three-year, $2.3 million project brings together UNDP UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNDP Unión Nacional para la Democracia y el Progreso (National Union for Democracy and Progress) and six other UN agencies in partnerships with government ministries in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam, and NGOs, to develop community-based initiatives to prevent trafficking, protect victims, re-integrate those who return home, and share regional information on the scope of the problem and effective responses. |
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