US upgrades Vietnam in human-trafficking report despite concerns
Washington DC, US Reuters The US State Department on Monday boosted Vietnam’s ranking in a human trafficking report, even as it cited concerns that the South-East Asian country had failed to investigate government officials complicit in trafficking crimes. A rights group last week accused Hanoi of giving misleading information and attempting to cover up trafficking […]
US places Russia on human trafficking, child soldier lists
Washington DC, US Reuters The United States on Tuesday placed Russia on lists of countries engaged in a “policy or pattern” of human trafficking and forced labor or whose security forces or government-backed armed groups recruit or use child soldiers. The State Department included the lists in its annual human trafficking report, which for the […]
US adds Turkey to list of countries implicated in use of child soldiers
Washington DC, US Reuters The United States on Thursday added Turkey to a list of countries that are implicated in the use of child soldiers over the past year, placing a NATO ally for the first time in such a list, in a move that is likely to further complicate the already fraught ties between […]
US criticised over top anti-trafficking ranking despite failings
Thomson Reuters Foundation The United States has undermined its credibility in the global drive to end human trafficking by giving itself top marks in its annual report on the crime despite dwindling prosecutions and protection for foreign victims, advocates said on Monday. Since 2000, the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons report has sorted countries into […]
Bangladesh boosts efforts to stop trafficking of Rohingya amid US criticism
Dhaka, Bangladesh Thomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh is striving to stop Rohingya refugees from being trafficked but the crackdown will “take some time”, an official said after the United States criticised the South Asian nation in its annual report on nations’ efforts to tackle trafficking. The US State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons report last month […]
US finds Nigeria, Niger improving anti-trafficking efforts
Dakar, Senegal and Phnom Penh, Cambodia Thomson Reuters Foundation Niger and Nigeria have improved their efforts to fight human trafficking, but still do not meet the minimum standards required, the US Government said last week in its closely watched annual assessment of how countries are performing. The US State Department upgraded both West African nations […]