Curbing Human Trafficking: Taiwan Ranks Best for 16 Consecutive Years, CCP Rated Worst

A survivor of forced organ harvesting, Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Peiming, testified at a press conference in Washington, D.C., describing her experience of imprisonment, torture, and forced organ harvesting under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). (Minghui.org)

[People News] With the tide of “globalisation,” the issue of human trafficking has worsened in recent years. Because of low risk and high profits, human trafficking—including transnational prostitution, forced labour, and organ trading—has become one of the world’s most severe crimes and a modern form of slavery that gravely violates human dignity and human rights. On September 30, the U.S. State Department released the 2025 Global Trafficking in Persons Report, reviewing the efforts of more than 180 countries and regions in combating human trafficking. The report listed the United States, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Finland, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Lithuania, and Sweden among those ranked Tier 1 (the highest rating). Taiwan has been ranked Tier 1 for 16 consecutive years, while the CCP government was once again rated Tier 3, the worst category.

The report categorises countries into three tiers, with Tier 1 being the best. However, it clarified that even Tier 1 countries are not free of trafficking, nor have they made sufficient efforts to eliminate it. Rather, Tier 1 indicates that a government’s efforts meet the minimum standards of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA).

The report commended Taiwan’s government for sustained and serious efforts, including criminal convictions of traffickers and significantly expanding referral and services for victims. Taiwan’s efforts fully meet Tier 1 standards.

By contrast, the CCP government “made no significant efforts” to eliminate human trafficking and therefore remains at Tier 3. The report noted that during the review period, forced labour policies and patterns were prevalent in the CCP government and affiliated entities, including the arbitrary detention and imprisonment of Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang, under the pretext of “vocational training” and “de-extremification.”

Chinese citizens have also reportedly been subjected to forced labour across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Europe, particularly in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects and other government- or enterprise-linked infrastructure projects. Oversight of labour recruitment, contracts, and working conditions was found lacking, while CCP diplomatic missions frequently failed to identify or assist victims of exploitation.

The CCP has not fully published law enforcement data for eight years and has failed to submit reports on victim identification, protection, or anti-trafficking measures.

According to the report, human trafficking is defined as the exploitation of adults or children for forced labour or sex trafficking for profit; cross-border transportation is not required to meet the definition.

In China, re-education camps, detention centres, and “brainwashing centres” serve as large-scale sites of forced labour. Victims are subjected not only to long-term unpaid work without any safety protections but also to corporal punishment, torture, sexual assault, and, in some cases, murder for organ harvesting. The CCP government is identified as the ultimate orchestrator of these crimes. Additionally, many Chinese brick kilns and coal mines have been exposed as sites where missing persons and disabled individuals are enslaved. For years, disappearances of university and high school students have occurred in multiple cities, frequently reported online but ignored by the CCP. This has allowed crimes such as human trafficking, illegal live organ harvesting and sales, and forced labour to persist unchecked for decades.

The U.S.-based organisation World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) has long exposed the CCP’s organ harvesting atrocities. According to its September 2025 investigative findings, CCP military hospitals began “infant organ transplant” experiments more than a decade ago. In recent years, they have overcome two major technical barriers and begun scaling up the practice. The investigation revealed this was tied to the CCP leadership’s “Project 150”—an initiative to extend the lifespans of top leaders to 150 years—and the personal interests of senior CCP families. A large-scale black market chain was established, including the captivity of women for forced pregnancies to produce “designated infants” as organ donors. Evidence showed that infant kidney transplant technology has matured, with some donors being babies born to artificially impregnated captive women. Whistleblowing military hospital experts identified this as one of the most evil medical crimes in human history.

On August 22, 2024, WOIPFG issued a solemn statement: the CCP’s forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners constitutes a state-led genocide—a crime unprecedented on this planet. After years of investigation, the organisation found that at least 891 organ transplant hospitals (centres) and 9,519 transplant surgeons were implicated. It emphasised that the CCP’s crime of harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners is still ongoing today. △