Trafficking Brides to China
This week we have once again focused on
international trafficking. Last week it
mostly centered on drugs, crime rings and garbage disposal. This week the focus shifted toward human trafficking
in West Africa, Dubai, as well as disease in Africa. During the multimedia portion of this week we
followed a journalist looking for an AIDS break out in China. This plus the focus on human trafficking had
me do a little research on trafficking problems in East Asia. I came across a pretty scary story about
bride trafficking to China.
Apparently the infamous single child
policy in China is causing a ripple affect all across the region in many
unexpected ways. We have all heard how
girls are being given up all across china due to this policy, what I hadn’t heard
about is how this had led to a very uneven ratio of men to women in China. This has created a market for brides. And where there is money to be made trafficking
will occur, In this case bringing in women from Burma. The Burmese government claims that today 80
percent of the human trafficking in their country is now young women being
trafficking to China and into forced marriages.
The cost of a Burmese bride according to the Metro.UK is anywhere
between 3,000 pounds and 5,000 pounds. The
market for these marriages is men in rural China desperate to find a wife and
carry on their family.
We try to stay solutions oriented, so how can we stop this
rampant trafficking from Burma to China?
The answer is clear, end the one child policy in China. This policy has caused huge problems since
the day it was originally implemented in 1978.
Countless children have been abandoned or sent off to foreign
countries. Luckily this could all
changed sooner rather than later. The UK
telegraph reported yesterday that with an ageing crisis looming in China the
government leaders are close to completely abandoning the policy. This move would not only benefit the people
of China, but could save countless Burmese brides to be the horror of being
trafficked to China against their will.
It is so crazy to me that China has a "single child policy", and it's still going on in modern day. The shortage of women in China now calls for women from other countries to be forced into marriage and being a wife, so Chinese men can have a bride. To countries like China, human rights are obviously not a concern.
ReplyDeletethe single child policy is s strange policy that has been implemented. The government needs to realize that they are causing other woman into forced marriage since the shortage of woman is there. this is along the lines of human trafficking, this policy is causing ripple effects of this.
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