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State Department Trafficking Report Blames China's "Previous" One Child Policy
Last week, the United States Department of State
issued its annual Trafficking in Persons (“TIP”) report, ranking China
on the Tier 2 Watch List because it is a “source, destination and
transit country” for trafficked persons, and because the Chinese
government, “does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the
elimination of trafficking . . .” On one hand, the TIP report heavily
implicates China’s One Child Policy in connection with China’s rampant
sexual slavery problem:
“The Chinese government’s birth limitation policy
and a cultural preference for sons create a skewed sex ratio of 117 boys
to 100 girls in China, which may serve to increase the demand for
prostitution and for foreign women as brides for Chinese men – both of
which may be procured by forced or coercion. Women and girls are
recruited through marriage brokers and transported to China, where some
are subjected to forced prostitution or forced labor.”
On the other hand, the TIP Report mistakenly
describes the One Child Policy as a thing of the past. Referencing a
2014 modification of the Policy, under which the Chinese government
allowed couples with one parent who is an only child to have a second
child, the Report states:
Academics noted the gender imbalance, due to the
previous one child policy, could contribute to crimes of human
trafficking in China. The government’s modification of the birth
limitation policy may affect future demands for prostitution and for
foreign women as brides for Chinese men.
Long a vocal critic of China’s One Child Policy,
Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers,
stated: “There is nothing ‘previous’ about the One Child Policy, which
is a present, terrifying reality to the women and families of China. The
fact that the Chinese government tweaked the One Child Policy in 2014
merely allows a relatively small number of additional families to have a
second child. This will not end forced abortion or gendercide in China.
The selective abortion and abandonment of baby girls is most prevalent
in the countryside, where couples already can have a second child if the
first child is a girl. Read More
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