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The report of slavery in China to the Temporary Slavery Commission (TSC) of 1924-1926 described the Mui Tsai trade in girls, which was a matter given international attention at this point. [48] Hong Kong refused to provide any information with the motivation that there was no slavery in Hong Kong. [49]
China's legal definition of trafficking does not automatically regard children over the age of 14 who are subjected to the commercial sex trade as trafficking victims. [2] Chinese laws only recognize forms of coercion other than abduction, such as threats of physical harm or non-physical harm, as constituting a means of trafficking.
The Biden administration added more than two dozen Chinese companies to its forced labor blacklist Friday in its latest effort to combat the exploitation of China’s ethnic Uyghur population. The ...
Slavery existed in ancient China as early as the Shang dynasty. [34] Slavery was employed largely by governments as a means of maintaining a public labour force. [35] [36] Until the Han dynasty, slaves were sometimes discriminated against but their legal status was guaranteed.
China's Xinjiang region is using agricultural industrialization to dismantle traditional communities and exploit Uyghur farmers, resulting in tainted products entering global supply chains and ...
The 2007 Chinese slave scandal (simplified Chinese: 山西黑砖窑案; traditional Chinese: 山西黑磚窯案; pinyin: Shānxī Hēi Zhuān Yáo àn; lit. 'Shanxi Black Brick Kiln incident') was a series of forced labour cases in Shanxi , China.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. has added three more companies to a list that bars imports from firms allegedly involved with Uyghur forced labor in China, according to a U.S. government notice ...
eliminating Forced Labor Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine — Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor; Slavery in the 21st century—BBC; Sex trade's reliance on forced labour—BBC; China's Forced Labour Camps—Laogai Research Foundation; The ILO Special Action Programme to combat Forced Labour (SAP-FL)