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Human trafficking in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China is a destination and transit territory for men and women trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor.
Hong Kong is primarily a transit point for illegal migrants, some of whom are subject to conditions of debt bondage, sexual exploitation, and forced labor. To a lesser extent, Hong Kong is a destination for women from the Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia who travel to Hong Kong voluntarily for legal employment in restaurants, bars, and hotels, but upon arrival are coerced into prostitution under conditions of debt bondage. Domestic and transnational criminal organizations carry out sex trafficking in China, including Hong Kong.[1][2] Many mainland Chinese prostitutes in Hong Kong are reportedly sexually trafficked victims.[3] Although Hong Kong continues efforts to regulate the thousands of foreign domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia currently working in Hong Kong, there appears to be a growing number of Indonesian workers who are subject to exploitation and conditions of involuntary servitude. Many Indonesian domestic workers earning the minimum wage are required to repay to their Indonesian recruitment agency $2,700 within their first seven months of employment, amounting to roughly 90 percent of a worker's monthly salary. Such high levels of indebtedness assumed as part of the terms of employment can lead to situations of debt bondage, when unlawfully exploited by recruiters or employers. Additionally, the confiscation of passports by some Hong Kong employment agencies restricts the ability of migrant workers to leave their employer in cases of abuse, and places them under further control of their employment agency, leaving them vulnerable to trafficking.[4] One of the contributing factors to Hong Kong's inability to effectively address human trafficking is the government's reluctance to acknowledge the issue.[5]
The U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the region in "Tier 2 Watchlist" in 2020.[6] In 2023 the US report noted that Hong Kong was at Tier 2, while China was one of eleven countries which were seen as having a documented government policy or pattern of human trafficking.[7]
As of mid-2024, China has not ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol.[8]
Sex trafficking
Sex trafficking in Hong Kong is an issue. Hongkonger and foreign women and girls are forced into prostitution in brothels, homes, and businesses in the city.....