US struggling to combat forced labour, ex anti-trafficking tsar warns
Thomson Reuters Foundation The United States must get better at tackling forced labour and fund specialist investigators to boost probes and prosecutions, the nation’s former anti-trafficking tsar said in an interview. Successive US governments have been “consistently weak” on labour trafficking with most investigations and criminal charges instead focusing on sexual slavery, said John Richmond, […]
US urged to downgrade Thailand in annual human trafficking report
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation The US State Department should downgrade Thailand in its annual report on human trafficking, rights groups said on Wednesday, citing the South-East Asian nation’s lack of progress in protecting fishing and garment workers. Thailand had failed to provide sufficient evidence of increased efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking from the […]