; and (B) raise these issues in all appropriate statements, dialogues, reports, and negotiations between the United States and Vietnam and in multi-lateral institutions where the United States and Vietnam are members. 9. United States assistance to support counting of women and girls in Vietnam (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Vietnam remains a source and, to a lesser extent, a destination country . . . for sex trafficking and forced labor. . (2) Vietnamese men and women are subject to forced labor in rehabilitation centers, detention centers, and prisons, according to the 2016 Annual Report on Trafficking in Persons. (3) Vietnamese migrants working in state- owned, private, or joint-stock companies live in situations of exploitation in the construction, fishing, agriculture, mining, logging and manufacturing sectors in other countries. (b) Implementation of the Girls Count Act of 2015 in Vietnam (1) Findings Congress finds the following: (A) Vietnam’s male-to-female sex-ratio disparity has increased despite the Vietnamese Government’s ending of its policy limiting married couples to 2 children. (B) Experts believe sex-ratio disparities have critical economic and social ramifications that affect United States interests, exacerbating the vulnerabilities of women to trafficking, child marriage, and reducing the ability of women to seek employment and participate in educational opportunities and civil society. (2) Authorization The Secretary of State is authorized to establish and support programs to— (A) monitor and halt bride and sex trafficking of girls and women in Vietnam and women from other countries in Asia, including China, as appropriate; and (B) address Vietnam’s growing sex-ratio disparity through economic support and programs described in section 4(a) of the Girls Count Act of 2015 ( Public Law 114–24