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Forced Labour Is Also 'Trafficking'

March 12, 2006

In order to safeguard the safer migration over the spring festival period of migrating women and children, the Guangzhou Railway Police and the Yuexiu government launched a project to prevent and combat trafficking under the guidance of the Guangdong Steering Committee of the ILO CP-TING Project. According to a representative of the ILO CP-TING project, the current conception of 'trafficking' is different from the traditional understanding of trafficking, as is it for the purpose of 'labour exploitation' which encompasses forced labour and forced prostitution and is not just abduction for wives or sons.

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¹ http://news.sohu.com/20060209/n241751738.shtml February 9, 2006, Sohu (Source: UNIAP China)