Shanxi to Institute Permanent Mechanism Protecting Migrant Workers——An interview with Yu Youjun

• 来源期刊: 人权（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2007,（6）
• 页码范围: 2-5
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

EDITOR'S NOTE:On June 1,2007,the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress approved a local decree entitled the Regulations on Protection of the Rights and Interests of Migrant Workers,which became effective on July 1,2007.The Regulations,the first local legislation of its kind ever adopted by a Chinese province,immediately followed exposure of some shocking cases in which hundreds of migrant workers from poverty-stricken rural areas,including junior and mentally retarded citizens,were held in virtual slavery at illegally-run brickworks in the province.