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A CONFERENCE of Central Authorities in Eastern Countries on the Traffic in Women and Children in the East opened at Bandoeng, Java, on February 2, as the outcome of investigations in 1930-31 by the League of Nations' Commission of Enquiry into the Traffic in Women and Children in the East. This Commission established that the international traffic in Oriental women and girls in the Near, Middle and Far East is, in the aggregate, large. The bulk of this traffic is Asiatic women from one country to another, mainly in victims of Chinese race, Japanese, including Korean and Formosan, coming next in numerical importance, and other nationalities being very much less represented. Traffic in Occidental women to the East, with certain exceptions, chiefly in the Mediterranean Near East, has markedly decreased. The agenda of the Conference consisted of six points covering the chief suggestions of the report for closer collaboration between central and other authorities; and between authorities and voluntary organizations; the protection of migrants, especially minors, victims, Or potential victims, of the traffic; the employment of women officials; the question of the continued existence of licensed or tolerated houses, which are the chief agents of internal and international traffic in the Indian and Pacific Oceans; and problems involved in the position of women of Russian origin in the Far East. Nine Governments, including the United Kingdom (Governments of the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States and Hong Kong), China, France, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Siam and the United States of America participated, as well as representatives of the International Criminal Police Commission.
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Traffic in Women and Children in the East. Nature 139, 663 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139663a0
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