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Guangdong, China Initiating Anti-Trafficking Action

Foshan Women's Federation is reporting that as Foshan is one of Guangdong’s four areas carrying out a pilot anti-trafficking initiative, it is already setting the relevant anti-trafficking actions in motion in Shundedaliang.

They anticipate that in the near future they will fully promote this programme in other areas and towns in Foshan.

According to statistics, Daliang District’s migration population is close to 200,000, women and children form the weakest groups in the migrant population, therefore they are often the main targets of abduction and exploitation.  It is essential to improve women’s awareness of trafficking and their ability to prevent and respond to it, in order to achieve this anti-trafficking work will be assimilated into the management, social services and work in other areas involving migrant women.  The trafficking project will not attend or monitor trafficking activities next year so that it can concentrate on carrying out anti-trafficking knowledge training for the girls and young women in the district.  The aim is for girls and young women who are faced with the risk of being trafficked to be provided with education, safe employment, legal advice and other such services.  This pilot project will increase the direct assistance for these girls and women.

Activities are introduced into the plan of action for direct assistance, the leader of this new initiative said that women who attend pilot activities are briefed on the project for the prevention of trafficking, they interact and are advised on aid, employment, the purpose of training, they also fill out evaluation cards.  A young migrant woman gratefully said: “Before we had never heard of trafficking and we didn’t know that when we were looking for a job we could be trafficked, or that so many actions constitute trafficking.  This activity has allowed us to understand these principles.”

Adapted from: "Migrant Women Are Targeted, Guangdong’s Foshan Daliang District is Initiating “Anti-Trafficking” Action." Guangzhou Daily. 7 November 2006. http://gd.dayoo.com/gb/content/