Shanxi and Henan Slave Labour Scandal.

05 July 2007

China Labour Bulletin was quoted by the following news organizations on the slave labour story that hit the headlines both within China and internationally in mid-June, 2007.

China crackdown on slave labour
Aljazeera.net, Qatar - Jun 21, 2007
Commenting on the issue, Michael Zhang, a senior researcher at the China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based labour rights group, said that many local ...
 
Dark side of China's economic miracle
ABC Online, Australia - Jun 20, 2007
Despite this, Robin Munro, from Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin (CLB), said his organisation did not know of any government department actively ...
 
China province head apologizes in slave labor storm
Boston Globe, United States - Jun 22, 2007
"What this shows is that local governance is in a terminal state of corruption in these areas," said Robin Munro of the China Labour Bulletin in Hong Kong, ...
 
Across Asia corruption and slavery form bitter web
Reuters India, India - Jun 22, 2007
... and outright slavery throughout rural China's brick industry, said Robin Munro, director of research for the China Labour Bulletin in Hong Kong. ...
 
Hundreds of brickwork slaves freed in China
Times Online, UK - Jun 15, 2007
Robin Munro, of the China Labour Bulletin based in Hong Kong, said: "My impression is that this is not a common problem, but this kind of thing by ...
 
CHINA: Child Labour Scandal Exposes Gross Corruption
Inter Press Service (subscription), Italy - Jun 18, 2007
... government resolutions will not be respected or administered," says Cai Chongguo, labour rights expert with the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin. ...

China starts manhunt for accused slave employer
China Post, Taiwan - Jun 16, 2007
... the government's economic-development policy of the last 20 years," said Han Dongfang, director of Hong Kong-based activist group China Labour Bulletin. ...
 
China arrests suspected kiln slave foreman
Edmonton Journal (subscription), Canada - Jun 18, 2007
... economic development policy of the last 20 years," Han Dongfang, director of Hong Kong-based activist group China Labour Bulletin, said Sunday. ...
 
Officials, police implicated in China slavery ring
Gulf Times, Qatar - Jun 15, 2007
That's the really worrying part," said Robin Munro, of the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin, which tracks workers' rights and conditions. ..

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