Country Information Pack
Published 31 May 2010
China
National legislation
- 13/12/2007
- 13/04/2009
State Council of China, National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010)
Link to chapter on women's rights. ...read more
- 01/01/2001
National Program of Action for Child Development in China (2001-2010)
Published 2001 ...read more
- 14/03/1997
Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China
- 04/04/1992
Law Safeguarding Women’s Rights and Interests of the People’s Republic of China
- 31/05/2010
Other national legislation available at this link
Accessed 31/05/2010 ...read more
Caselaw
- 20/07/2009
ZC & Others (Risk – illegal exit – loan sharks) China CG [2009] UKAIT 00028
- 18/07/2009
HC & RC (Trafficked women) China CG [2009] UKAIT 00027
Note that although this Country Guidance case was determined negatively, cases involving Chinese victims of trafficking are regularly being WON at appeal as it can be argued that aspects of the Country Guidance are wrong. ...read more
- 13/08/2002
HL (Risk –Return – Snakeheads) China CG [2002] UKIAT 03683
Home Office documents
- 08/01/2010
UK Border Agency, Country of Origin Information Report: China
- 10/06/2009
UK Border Agency, Operational Guidance Note: China
Human Rights Reports
- 11/03/2010
US Department of State, 2009 Human Rights Report: China
- 24/02/2010
US Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Interim Assessment: China
- 20/01/2010
Human Rights Watch, World Report 2010: China
- 10/10/2009
US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2009
- 10/09/2009
See Chapter 3 and also China links in the appendix. ...read more
- 16/07/2009
Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2009: China
- 01/07/2009
Macro International Inc., Summary Report: Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Forced Child Labor in China
Published July 2009, funded by US Department of Labor ...read more
- 16/06/2009
US Department of State, 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report
- 03/06/2009
Freedom House, Worst of the worst 2009: China
See final paragraph ...read more
- 01/02/2009
Published Feb 2009 ...read more
- 31/10/2008
Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2008
- 01/09/2009
No-trafficking.org, Siren Human Trafficking Data Sheet; China
Published Sept 2009. ...read more
- 19/03/2007
- 01/01/2007
Published 2007 ...read more
- 25/07/2006
- 27/03/2006
- 20/11/2004
Xin Ren, Trafficking in Children: China and Asian Perspective
News Reports
- 26/03/2010
The Irrawaddy, Human Trafficking Increases on Sino-Burma Border
- 04/02/2010
The Guardian, The Chinese toddler chained through love and fear
- 02/02/2010
- 11/01/2010
BBC News, China faces growing gender imbalance
- 24/11/2009
- 20/12/2008
- 12/12/2008
- 29/01/2008
humantrafficking.org, Children go home as China cracks trafficking ring
- 05/08/2007
- 11/04/2007
Human Trafficking.org, Human Rights Organizations Point to Rise in Child Trafficking in China
- 04/04/2007
Voice of America News, Trafficking of Rural Women, Children Increasing in China
- 09/08/2006
BBC News, China slow to wake up to human trade
Background Materials
- 31/05/2010
- 26/03/2010
- 15/03/2010
The Guardian, Millions of Chinese rural migrants denied education for their children
- 09/03/2010
- 08/03/2010
- 02/03/2010
Radio Free Asia, China: Migrant children denied school, available at Refworld
- 15/09/2009
- 18/06/2009
China case study at p.8 ...read more
- 03/03/2009
Human Rights Watch, China: Congress should end migrant discrimination
- 23/01/2009
Human Rights Watch, China: Economic crisis increases risks for migrant workers
- 11/03/2008
Human Rights Watch, “One year of my blood”: Exploitation of migrant construction workers in Beijing
- 07/10/2005
Experts
- 31/05/2010
Occupation: Associate Professor in Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham
Profile: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/chinese/people/j.sheehan
Email address: J.Sheehan@nottingham.ac.uk
Telephone: 0115 951 5954 ...read more - 31/05/2010
ECPAT UK (for the attention of Christine Beddoe)
Occupation: ECPAT are a leading children's rights organisation campaigning against the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the UK and on its international aspects. In particular, ECPAT's focus is the protection of trafficked children and children exploited in tourism and the prevention of such crimes.
Address: Grosvenor Gardens House, 35-37 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0BS
Email address: info@ecpat.org.uk
Telephone number: 0207 233 9887 ...read more
Further Resources
- 31/05/2010
Accessed 31 May 2010 ...read more
- 31/05/2010