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Whilst detailed research from @justicecentrehk from 2016 has already shown that there is and was a significant problem of forced labour and trafficking for the purposes of forced labour within the migrant domestic worker population in #HK alone: https://www.justicecentre.org.hk/report/comingclean/">https://www.justicecentre.org.hk/report/co...
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Data shows a grand total of 7 individuals in #HK prosecuted for Human Trafficking related offences, since July 2018. The supposed "tapas" approach to criminalization patently ineffectual; (as accepted by Court of Appeal in ZN [166-167] #incoming-1209">https://accessinfo.hk/en/request/human_trafficking_prosecutions #incoming-1209">https://accessinfo.hk/en/reques...
Next week, the #HK Court of Final Appeal hears the case of ‘ZN’, examining the regions obligations in respect of victims of #HumanTrafficking. It is a very important case for a number of reasons.
The CFA give a nice clear overview: https://www.hkcfa.hk/data.json?src=pdf_sof&lang=E&case_court_sys=FA&case_type=CV&case_ser_no=4&case_yr=2019.">https://www.hkcfa.hk/data.json... There are really two questions in the appeal:(1) The breadth of any prohibition of #HumanTrafficking w/n Article 4 of BORO; & (2) The extent/existence of any duty to have a ‘bespoke’ Trafficking criminal offence.
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