The country whose Communist ruler once hailed the eradication of houseflies and prostitutes as a symbol of socialist progress now finds itself in the crosshairs of a report on the widespread mistreatment of the millions of sex workers who have accompanied China's economic boom.
With the myth of Mao Zedong's supposed socialist puritanism a fading memory, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said Chinese women who engage in sex work are subject to a wide range of police and other abuses, including arbitrary arrest, beatings, high risk of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS and a wide array of other ill-treatment.
One of the leftovers from the Maoist era is the designation of prostitution as one of the "six evils" of society-along with gambling, superstition, drug trafficking, pornography, and trafficking of women and children. It is labeled by the government as an "ugly social phenomenon" that goes against "socialist spiritual civilization" despite the fact that - at least until the cleanup dictated by incoming President Xi Jinping - petty bureaucrats routinely avail themselves of the services of sex workers.
In the report, released today and titled "Swept Away," Human Rights Watch says the momentous economic and social change going on in China today has produced a sharp increase in the numbers of women engaged in sex work - as many as 4-6 million women. Full story...
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With the myth of Mao Zedong's supposed socialist puritanism a fading memory, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said Chinese women who engage in sex work are subject to a wide range of police and other abuses, including arbitrary arrest, beatings, high risk of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS and a wide array of other ill-treatment.
One of the leftovers from the Maoist era is the designation of prostitution as one of the "six evils" of society-along with gambling, superstition, drug trafficking, pornography, and trafficking of women and children. It is labeled by the government as an "ugly social phenomenon" that goes against "socialist spiritual civilization" despite the fact that - at least until the cleanup dictated by incoming President Xi Jinping - petty bureaucrats routinely avail themselves of the services of sex workers.
In the report, released today and titled "Swept Away," Human Rights Watch says the momentous economic and social change going on in China today has produced a sharp increase in the numbers of women engaged in sex work - as many as 4-6 million women. Full story...
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