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China’s ‘two sessions’ will see calls for action over human trafficking after chained woman scandal

As China’s “two sessions” begin, a growing number of delegates to the annual political meetings are calling for reforms to tackle the trafficking of women and children.

Human trafficking – especially that of women and children – quickly became one of the nation’s most glaring domestic issues after a video of a mentally ill woman chained in a dirty shack in eastern China went viral in late January. The woman, a mother of eight who had been chained to the wall by her husband, turned out to be a trafficking victim.

A more recent viral video brought the human trafficking issue to the fore just ahead of the two sessions – the twin meetings of the top advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and the National People’s Congress, the country’s legislature. In this one, a farmer in northwestern Shaanxi province had forced a homeless woman into marriage and confined her in an iron cage.

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