China News Service, Geneva, June 29. On June 29, the Chinese representative spoke at the 47th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in a dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Human Trafficking. The victims provide protection, and China expresses serious concern about the serious modern slavery and human trafficking in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries.
The statement pointed out that in the past five years, as many as 100,000 people were trafficked to the United States for forced labor each year, and half of them were trafficked to "sweatshops" or subjected to domestic servitude; it is reported that about 136,000 people were trafficked to the United Kingdom in 2018 Many trafficked persons, including women and children, died due to poor transportation conditions. The international community should pay attention to the human trafficking problems in the United States and the United Kingdom and urge them to take effective measures to solve them.
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