Origins: Why do brides wear white?
MARLISE SCHOENY, assistant curator for the Ohio State Historic Costume & Textiles Collection, looks – in an artcile first published on The Conversation – at the origins of the white wedding gown…
Chinese police rescue hundreds of trafficked women
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation China rescued more than 1,100 women trafficked into the country, many of them sold as brides, in a joint operation with South-East Asian countries, police said in a statement on Friday. Seventeen children were among those rescued in raids carried out with officers from Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand […]
Poor Pakistani Christian women trafficked as “brides” to China
Karachi, PakistanThomson Reuters Foiundation When Natasha Khokar was married off to a Chinese man last year, she was promised a life of wealth in a posh home. Instead, she was locked up in a shanty with not even a quilt or a toilet. “It was like a bad dream,” said Khokar, 27, describing her short […]
WEDLOCKED: TANGLED WEBS TRAP CAMBODIAN “BRIDES” IN CHINA
MATT BLOMBERG and KONG META, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
Family ties thwart Cambodia’s efforts to tackle bride trafficking to China
Thomson Reuters Foundation A rising number of Cambodian women are being sold as brides in China but complaints and convictions are on the decline with many victims refusing to speak out because their families are colluding with trafficking rings, a regional police chief said. Thousands of Cambodian women have gone to China in recent years […]