Human trafficking a most inhuman business!
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The People’s Republic of China is a source, transit,
and destination country for human trafficking;
the majority of which is internal trafficking.
Chinese women and children are trafficked
for sexual and labor exploitation in Malaysia,
Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States,
Australia, Europe, Canada, Japan, Italy, Burma,
Singapore, South Africa, and Taiwan.
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Many Chinese are recruited by false promises
of employment and are later coerced into
prostitution or forced labor.
Children are sometimes recruited by
traffickers who promise their parents
that their children can send remittances
back home.
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In poorer areas, most trafficked women are
sold as wives to old and disabled unmarried men.
In richer areas, most trafficked women are
sold to commercial sex businesses, hair salons,
massage parlors and bathhouses.
Chinese children were also kidnapped
and sold for adoption.
China is a transit country for trafficked
victims destined to Thailand and Malaysia
for commercial sexual exploitation,
forced marriage, illegal adoption,
begging, and forced labor.
China is a destination country for women
and children who are trafficked from Mongolia,
Burma, North Korea, Russia, Vietnam, Ukraine,
and Laos for sexual and labor exploitation.
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Most women and girls are trafficked from
North Korea, Vietnam, Russia, and Burma.
Many North Koreans voluntarily migrate to
work in China but are later coerced
into exploitative conditions.
North Korean women reportedly were sold
for approximately $380 to $1,260.
While there are no reliable estimates
on the number of trafficking victims in China,
the Vietnamese authorities reported that
167 Vietnamese women and children
were rescued from traffickers in China.
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China has a significant amount of internal
trafficking of children for sexual and
labor exploitation.
Estimates on the number of victims
range from 10,000 to 20,000 each year.
International organizations report that 90
percent of internal trafficking vicims
are women and children,
trafficked primarily from Anhui, Henan,
Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, and
Guizhou Provinces to prosperous provinces
along the east coast.
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