Giving Compass' Take:

• The welcomed changing of China's family planning policy will directly affect human trafficking in Asia. More than 3,000 people in Vietnam, most of them women and children, were trafficked between 2012 and 2017, many across the border into China, Vietnamese officials said this month.

• How long will it take for these changes to occur? What can be done in the mean time to stop human trafficking?

• Learn how to help end human trafficking.

China's reported plan to scrap its decades-long family planning policy could help prevent impoverished women from other parts of Asia being trafficked into the country to meet demand for brides, campaigners said.

The world's most populous nation appears to be setting the stage to end its policy of determining the number of children that couples can have, which has left fewer women than men as Chinese families traditionally prefer sons.

Chinese men who struggle to find a wife locally often turn to illicit marriage brokers who recruit women from nations like Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos and sell them as brides, rights groups say.

But campaigners were cautiously hopeful after a Chinese state-run newspaper said this week that all content on family planning has been dropped in a draft civil code being considered by top lawmakers, signaling a possible end to the policy.

Read the full article about human trafficking by Beh Lih Yi at Global Citizen.