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Trafficking Prevention Awareness Printed on Playing Cards in China

Hunan Province’s All China Women’s Federation and other departments held a large-scale “Spring Rain Activity” at Changsha Railway Station Plaza, during which information on trafficking prevention and safeguarding human rights was disseminated.

The province’s Deputy of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress, Zhou Shichang also participated in the activity, he gave free advice to the crowd who attended and provided fancy playing cards.

“Identity cards and other documents should not be voluntarily given to other people, it is necessary to give a photocopy” ”it is better if workers coming from another place travel in the company of somebody else”……looking at the playing cards one can see a safety notice for women who have come to the cities for work straight away, Zhang Yanfang from Yiyang, Anhua smiled as she said this.

Now is the peak period for workers to migrate to Hunan’s cities. According to statistics from Hunan’s Labour and Social Security Department, in 2006 in Hunan a total of 1,003,023 workers went to work in the cities, females accounted for more than 40% of the total.

“In these big armies of workers there are some girls and young women who due to the way they have haphazardly migrated are trafficked and fall into exploitative, forced labour and slave like working conditions, their human rights as well as their labour rights are seriously violated.” The person in charge of the province’s All China Women’s Federation’s work on this matter said, in recent years the number of cases of trafficking women for marriage has decreased, yet the number of cases of workers being trafficked into the sexual services industry or exploitative labour has increased.

Adapted from: "Traffic Prevention Awareness Printed on Playing Cards." Xiaoxiang Morning Post. 3 March 2007.