US places Russia on human trafficking, child soldier lists
Washington DC, USReuters 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 first […]
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 finds Bangladesh improving anti-trafficking efforts in annual report
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladesh has improved its efforts to combat human trafficking but must do more to increase convictions and investigate cases involving Rohingyas, according to the US Government’s annual report ranking countries on their anti-trafficking standards. The State Department upgraded the South Asian nation in its 2020 Trafficking in Persons report, which sorts […]
US finds Nigeria, Niger improving anti-trafficking efforts
Dakar, Senegal and Phnom Penh, CambodiaThomson 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 in […]
Over-ruling his experts, Pompeo keeps Saudis off US child soldiers list
Washington, DCReuters US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked the inclusion of Saudi Arabia on a US list of countries that recruit child soldiers, dismissing his experts’ findings that a Saudi-led coalition has been using under-age fighters in Yemen’s civil war, according to four people familiar with the matter. The decision, which drew immediate […]
Countries face tighter scrutiny on trafficking under US law
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nations around the world face increased scrutiny from the United States over their attempts to fight human trafficking at home – and the price of failure could be steep, under a law signed by President Donald Trump last week. The bedrock law behind US efforts to fight human trafficking around the world […]