Human Rights - Labour Rights

Amnesty International issued a report on the widespread abuse of migrant workers in China. "China's so-called economic 'miracle' comes at a terrible human cost -- rural migrants living in the cities experience some of the worst abuse in the work place," the report concluded. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman acknowledged that workers' rights had been abused "in some places and sectors in China", but still called AI's report "biased and groundless". "Migrant workers have made and are making a great contribution to China's economic growth and construction, and the Chinese government at all levels and Chinese people have high respect for their labour," he claimed.