Ending Human Trafficking in the Middle Kingdom

Here are the facts: in the last four months, Chinese officials have freed aproximately 3,400 women and children who were caught in the web of human trafficking. At the same time, they've arrested 824 suspected traffickers.
According to The Straits Times in Singapore and Xinhua on the mainland, China's Public Security Ministry has been involved in a deliberate campaign to curb human trafficking for months. That focus will continue through December, officials say.
Some of the women freed in recent raids had been forced to work as prostitutes, according to reports. As a nation, China is only now tasting the full effects of the one-child policy that has been in place for a generation. Some believe the lack of females of a marriagable age may be playing into the country's human trafficking woes. Here's an excerpt from The Straits Times article:

The trafficking of women and children remains common in China...
Women are also trafficked to be sold to men in remote areas who are unable to find brides, due to the sex imbalance resulting from China's one-child policy which has encouraged sex-selective abortions.
Population experts say that sex-selective abortions have boosted the number of boys born here for over a generation.
Men of marriageable age currently outnumber women by more than 18 million, a number that could grow to 30 million by 2020 due to a traditional preference for Chinese families to have male heirs.

Read the Xinhua report here.

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