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Police rescue 24,000 women, children from Chinese human trafficking gangs
From MSNBC: A year after the Chinese government started targeting human trafficking, the country’s security ministry reported that in the last year police had rescued 24,000 women and children who had been abducted, the Irish Times reported… …The black market for children is a growing problem in China, the BBC reported, and critics blame the [...]
China: 310 traffickers arrested in national sweep
From China Daily: …More than 150 police officers from the city were divided into three groups and dispatched to Tianlin, Longlin and Xilin counties to capture human traffickers. As of Thursday, 16 suspects had been arrested. In fact, Guangxi was just one of 14 “battlefields” in the Ministry of Public Security’s crackdown against human trafficking [...]
Chinese orphanages buying babies for foreign adoption, investigation finds
From PerthNow: Chinese orphanages may still be buying babies and offering them for foreign adoption, Sky News discovered in an investigation. It follows a series of scandals linking China’s foreign adoption program to baby trafficking and the illegal confiscation of children. Since international adoptions began in China in the early 1990s, more than 100,000 children [...]
USCIS Public Engagement: “Grandfathered” Adoptions Engagement
From U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: Dear Stakeholder, USCIS invites interested parties to participate in a national stakeholder teleconference on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 2:00 PM EDT. The purpose of this engagement is to discuss changes to the process of “grandfathering” certain adoption cases as orphan cases when the U.S. and another country [...]
China arrests 608 people for child trafficking
From Reuters: Police in China have arrested 608 people suspected of selling children and freed 178 children, including some infants, in a crackdown spanning 10 provinces on child trafficking, officials said on Wednesday. Police arrested the suspects on November 30, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement, calling the crackdown “one of the [...]
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