Editing Slavery (section)

==== Taiwan ====
Taiwan's migrant worker population—estimated in 2018 to be up to 660,000 in number—have reportedly faced slavery-like conditions involving sexual abuse in the [[Migrant caregivers in Taiwan|domestic work]] sector<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-01-25 |title=Modern day slavery |url=https://www.columban.org.fj/media-and-publications/the-far-east-magazine/archive/2018/the-far-east-january/february-2018/modern-day-slavery |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=[[Missionary Society of St. Columban]] |language=en |quote="Many of them are locked in the house of their Taiwanese employers, never allowed to have a day off, and virtually under the control of their employer," Fr O’Neill said. "Some are also victims of sexual abuse – raped by the husband who is their employer. They run away and become undocumented workers, then they are lured by the illegal brokers to find work. Some of them end up in brothels and become victims of sex trafficking."}}</ref> and forced labor in [[Fishing industry in Taiwan|fishing]] sectors.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y7RnfnUAVY&t=81s |title=Death By Fishing: How Taiwan's Seafood Got Tainted With Blood {{!}} CNA Correspondent |date=2022-03-03 |type=Television production |language=en |publisher=[[CNA (TV network)|CNA]] |access-date=2024-05-19 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-15 |title=Greenpeace Condemns Biden Administration's Top Tier Ranking of Taiwan in latest Trafficking in Persons Report |url=https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/greenpeace-condemns-biden-administrations-top-tier-ranking-of-taiwan-in-latest-trafficking-in-persons-report/ |access-date=2024-05-19 |website=[[Greenpeace]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Taiwan is among a minority of places in the world that legally allows labor brokers to charge migrant workers for services which elsewhere are covered by employers as human resource costs.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Peter Bengtsen |date=October 31, 2023 |title=Debt Bondage in Space, and Taiwan |url=https://thediplomat.com/2023/10/debt-bondage-in-space-and-taiwan/ |website=The Diplomat |language=en-US}}</ref> A few Taiwanese universities have reportedly tricked students from [[Eswatini]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 November 2018 |title=Swaziland: Students in Taiwan Forced to Work 'Like Slaves' in Frozen Chicken Factory |url=https://allafrica.com/stories/201811200377.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120141436/https://allafrica.com/stories/201811200377.html |archive-date=20 November 2018 |work=[[AllAfrica]]}}</ref> [[Uganda]] and [[Sri Lanka]] into forced labour at factories as payment for the university programs.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Huang Rongwen |date=2022-02-10 |title=Exploitation cases of Sri Lankan students in Taiwan expose education sector flaws |url=https://themorning.lk//articles/188339 |access-date=2024-05-20 |website=[[The Morning (Sri Lanka)]] |publication-place=[[National Changhua University of Education]] |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522092218/https://www.themorning.lk/articles/188339 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some charity groups in 2007 also insisted that foreign women—mostly from China and Southeast Asia—were being forced into prostitution, although local police in [[Tainan]] disagreed and said they deliberately came to Taiwan "to sell sex".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Max Hirsch |date=2007-05-23 |title=Officials divided on sex slave issue |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/05/23/2003362069 |access-date=2024-05-22 |website=[[Taipei Times]]}}</ref>