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*New* CHINA COUNTRY INFORMATION PACK

Published 31/05/2010

 

National legislation relating to trafficking

State Council of China, China National Plan of Action on Combating Trafficking in Women and Children (2008-2012)

13.12.2007

State Council of China, National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010) – link to chapter on women’s rights

 

National Program of Action for Child Development in China (2001-2010)

2001

Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China

1997

Law Safeguarding Women's Rights and Interests of the People's Republic of China (1992)

1992

Government of China's Plan of Action To Prevent, Protect, Prosecute and Reintegrate

 

Other national legislation available at: http://www.no-trafficking.org/resources_laws_china.html

 


Caselaw

ZC & Others (Risk - illegal exit – loan sharks) China CG [2009] UKAIT 00028

20.07.2009

HC & RC (Trafficked women) China CG [2009] UKAIT 00027

18.07.2009

HL (Risk –Return - Snakeheads) China CG [2002] UKIAT 03683

13.08.2002


Home Office documents

UK Border Agency, Country of Origin Information Report: China

08.01.2010

UK Border Agency, Operational Guidance Note: China

10.06.2009


Human Rights Reports

US Department of State, 2009 Human Rights Report: China

11.03.2010

US Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Interim Assessment: China

24.02.2010

Human Rights Watch, World Report 2010: China

20.01.2010

US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2009

10.10.2009

Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2009: China

16.07.2009

Macro International Inc., Summary Report: Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Forced Child Labor in China July, 2009, funded by US Department of Labor

07.2009

US Department of State, 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report

16.06.2009

Freedom House, Worst of the worst 2009: China (final paragraph)

03.06.2009

Susan Tiefenbrun and Christie J. Edwards, Gendercide and the Cultural Context of Sex Trafficking in China

Feb 2009

 

The United States Labor Department, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking: The Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor
See Chapter 3 and also China links in appendix

2009

Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2008

31.10.2008

No-trafficking.org, Siren Human Trafficking Data Sheet; China

Sept 2008

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): 'Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences: Communications to and from Governments (China excerpt)'

19.03.2007

Chan, K. L., Sexual violence against women and children in China. Sexual Violence Research Initiative, Pretoria, South Africa

2007

Human Rights in China: 'Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in the People's Republic of China: A Parallel NGO Report by Human Rights in China'

25.07.2006

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): 'Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights aspects of the victims of trafficking in persons, especially women and children: Summary of cases transmitted to Governments and replies received (China and North Korea excerpts)'

27.03.2006

Xin Ren, Trafficking in Children: China and Asian Perspective

20.11.2004


News Reports and Newswire Services

The Irrawaddy,  Human Trafficking Increases on Sino-Burma Border

26.03.2010

The Guardian, The Chinese toddler chained through love and fear

04.02.2010

US Congressional-Executive Committee on China, All-China Women's Federation Proposes, Highlights Need for Draft Anti-Domestic Violence Legislation

02.02.2010

BBC News, China faces growing gender imbalance

11.01.2010

US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Ministry of Public Security Cracks Down on Abduction and Sale of Women and Children

24.11.2009

US Congressional-Executive Committee on China, Government Improves Anti-Domestic Violence Efforts; Victim Protection Remains Limited

20.12.2008

US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, China's Anti-Trafficking Efforts Remain Inadequate One Year After Government's Release of National Action Plan

12.02.2008

humantrafficking.org, Children go home as China cracks trafficking ring

29.01.2008

Human Trafficking.org: Trafficking for the Purposes of Exploitation and Prostitution Has Increased in China

05.08.2007

Human Trafficking.org: Human Rights Organizations Point to Rise in Child Trafficking in China

11.04.2007

Voice of America News: 'Trafficking of Rural Women, Children Increasing in China'

04.04.2007

BBC News, China slow to wake up to human trade

09.08.2006


Background materials on the country of origin or region

‘Hukou’ household registration system and socio-economic issues

US Congressional-Executive Committee on China, Joint Editorial Calling for Hukou Reform Removed From Internet Hours After Publication, Co-Author Fired

26.03.2010

The Guardian, Millions of Chinese rural migrants denied education for their children

15.03.2010

US Congressional-Executive Committee on China, Beijing Activists Call For Fair Treatment of Migrant Workers' Children

09.03.2010

US Congressional-Executive Committee on China, Migrant Workers' Children Face Barriers to Education, Activists Call for Fair Treatment

08.03.2010

Radio Free Asia, China: Migrant children denied school, available at Refworld

02.03.2010

UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention: concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: China (including Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions), 15 September 2009, CERD/C/CHN/CO/10-13, available at: Refworld

15.09.2009

Human Rights Watch, Discrimination, Denial and Deportation: Human rights abuses affecting migrants living with HIV (China case study at p.8)

18.06.2009

Human Rights Watch, China: Congress should end migrant discrimination

03.03.2009

Human Rights Watch, China: Economic crisis increases risks for migrant workers

23.01.2009

Human Rights Watch, “One year of my blood”: Exploitation of migrant construction workers in Beijing

11.03.2008

US Congressional-Executive Committee on China, China’s Household Registration System: Sustained reform needed to protect China’s rural migrants

07.10.2005


Further resources

Organization of American States, Bibliography on the topic of Chinese people trafficked into the Western hemisphere

 


Experts

Dr Jackie Sheehan

Occupation: Associate Professor in Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham

Email address: J.Sheehan@nottingham.ac.uk
Telephone: 0115 951 5954

Profile: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/chinese/people/j.sheehan

ECPAT UK (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, for the attention of Christine Beddoe, Director)

Occupation: ECPAT are a leading children's rights organisation campaigning against the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the UK and on its international aspects. In particular, ECPAT's focus is the protection of trafficked children and children exploited in tourism and the prevention of such crimes.

Address: Grosvenor Gardens House, 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0BS

Email address: info@ecpat.org.uk

Telephone number: 0207 233 9887

 

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