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Sex Trafficking of North Korean Women
Sex Trafficking of North Korean Women
Sex Trafficking of North Korean Women
Korean Women
By Erica Guo
Pr. 2
Analyzing Case #1
Sadly, ethnic Koreans in China are often the ones that exploit North
Koreans, who share their cultural background.
Ethnic Koreans and Han Chinese traffickers often collaborate.
Both ethnic Koreans and Han Chinese are also customers.
Many ethnic Korean men want wives that share their backgrounds.
But forcing North Korean women into marriages is unethical.
Case #2
I came to China in 2004 in order to sell herbs and earn some money. I
was deceived by a North Korean woman who lived in my neighborhood
and handed me over to ethnic Korean people who sold me to my current
husband. I gave birth to a child in 2005. In March 2006, the head of the
womens association in our village came to our house, saying that the
hukou for the new-born baby should be sorted out. She said that during
the year while I was still pregnant, the local police paid visits to the
houses of North Korean women who had children and made a
registration certificate for them.
Analyzing Case #2
North Korean women often fear the Chinese police.
Men that they are forced to marry often threaten to turn them in if
they do not behave.
For many North Korean women, rape and abuse at the hands of their
husbands is better than being deported and facing torture back in
their old country.
UN Articles
ARTICLE 4 NO SLAVERY. No one shall be held in slavery or
servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their
forms.
This is related because forced marriages are an obvious form of
slavery. North Korean women often do not know of the transaction
and suffer sexual, physical, and mental abuse to abnormal levels.
Article 3 - Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of
person.
Unfortunately, forced marriages and sexual trafficking undermines
North Korean womens three fundamental rights.
Sources
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/04/14/399337562/thou
sands-of-young-women-in-u-s-forced-into-marriage
http://www.northkoreanow.org/those-who-flee-the-bride-trafficking-of
-north-korean-refugee-women/
https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/Lives_for_Sale.pdf