Thursday, March 01, 2007

labor - Reform re-education camps hit the media

It took a while, but both Chinese and non-Chinese media now start to report on the upcoming changing in China's practise to send people to re-educational labor camps. Next Monday the National People's Congress has the reform of the country's labor camp law on the agenda as one of twenty items, reports AP, based on Chinese media.
Earlier the UN organization for labor, the ILO, already reported China was preparing to sign the UN convention against forced labor.
It is not sure the changes are going to make it:
The China Daily noted that the draft law has been stalled on the legislative agenda for two years due to disagreements. It said there were still "lots of disagreements" this year.
To get the agreement of the lawmakers, also other issues of "forced labor" are combined with the issue, notably the treatment of Chinese workers in Europe and the US and the forced labor of migrant workers at private companies.

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