HumanTrafficking.org | China Government Agency: Ministry of Public Security

A web resource for combating human trafficking

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In 2003, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the Government of Thailand agreed on a framework for repatriating trafficking victims. The MPS is working on a similar agreement with Vietnam.

MPS estimated that 9,000 women and 1,000 children are kidnapped and sold illegally each year.

MPS uses DNA technology to confirm parentage, using a national DNA databank, to prevent and prosecute the crime of child selling.

The Chinese Ministry of Public Security works with Vietnam to familiarise each other with the social and economic context of the situation of cross-border trafficking and to pave the way for joint interventions in the future.

The MPS has worked in cooperation with UNICEF in the last several years. They have focused on communication, awareness-raising, the establishment of transition centers for victims of domestic trafficking, as well as training of police officers on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international conventions.

Since 1999, 1,500 police officers at the county level have attended training courses held in 13 provinces on psychological counseling for victims of trafficking.