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Article: Human Trafficking in China.(LEGISLATION AND POLICY)
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- DISAM Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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[The following are excerpts of the speech presented to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus Briefing, Washington, D.C., October 31, 2007.]
Although Chinese law prohibits forced and compulsory labor, including by children, serious problems of forced labor exist. For this reason, the People's Republic of China (PRC), a source, transit and destination country, has sustained a Tier 2 Watch List ranking for three consecutive years. Though Chinese men and women are trafficked abroad for forced labor and sexual exploitation, the majority of trafficking in China is internal.
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