Brides For Sale: Vietnamese Women Trafficked To China
While China grapples with the economic and demographic consequences of its family planning...
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Why Mexican Drug-Traffickers Smuggle Iron Ore to China
The Economist explains why smuggling iron ore to China has become a popular activity for Mexican...
1,000+ Arrested for Trafficking Babies on the Internet
China’s Ministry of Public Security announced on Thursday that more than 1000 people have...
Kenya Extradites Alleged Ivory Kingpin to China
The AP reports on the apprehension and extradition of an alleged Chinese ivory smuggler in Kenya...
China’s Six-Ton Ivory Crush Debated
The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer reports on the destruction of more than six tons of...
Police Turn Blind Eye To Baby Smuggling Trade
Zhang Suxia, an obstetrician in Shaanxi’s Fuping county, who for eight years allegedly sold her patient’s healthy babies on the booming black market, is at the heart of a recent baby-trafficking scandal, which has...
China’s “Great Global Thinkers” for 2012
As the season of lists gets underway, Foreign Policy has released its ranking of the 100 Top Global Thinkers of 2012. Fresh from his coronation as GQ magazine’s Rebel of the Year, and leading the Chinese contingent at...
Vietnam-China trafficking on rise – Jill McGivering
From BBC NEWS: The number of known cases of women and girls trafficked from Vietnam to China more than doubled last year, China’s official Xinhua news agency has said. Xinhua said 125 cases were detected of Vietnamese trafficked into China’s Guangxi province, across the border. This is partly due to better detection by both governments, […]
China taking in North Korean sex slaves, says US – Reuters
From Reuters, via the Washington Post: Many North Korean refugees who flee to China every year end up as sex slaves and China often sends them back for punishment, the U.S. ambassador for fighting international slavery said in Beijing on Friday. John Miller, the director of the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat […]
Man detained over online baby sale joke – Shanghai Daily
From Shanghai Daily, via China Daily: Police will keep a man from Jiangxi Province in detention for seven days for allegedly posting a note on a popular Website offering to sell babies. The man, surnamed Wu, said on eBay’s...
China auction-site ads offered babies for sale – CNet
From CNet News: Shanghai police are investigating advertisements offering babies for sale on a Chinese Web site owned by Internet auction power eBay, state media said on Thursday. The ads, which appeared on the Eachnet site on Oct. 16, promised babies under 100 days old from the impoverished central province of Henan at prices of […]
Human rights key to China’s development – Cesar Chelala
Chelala writes in the Tokyo Times: During a recent visit to Beijing, U.N. rights envoy Louise Arbour called attention to the serious human-rights situation in China and the need for improvements according to international human-rights standards. An important step in that regard would be for China to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political […]
Top UN Human Rights Official Urges Ratification of Anti-Trafficking Agreements – Luis Ramirez
From VOA: The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged China and other non-signatories to ratify rights agreements to help counter the rise in trafficking of women and children worldwide. High Commissioner Louise Arbour spoke at an Asia-Pacific human rights conference on Tuesday. U.N. agencies say millions of women and children continue to be […]
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