US adds Turkey to list of countries implicated in use of child soldiers
Washington DC, USReuters 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 Ankara […]
Congo vows zero tolerance over child soldiers after US anti-trafficking nod
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of CongoThomson Reuters Foundation The Democratic Republic of Congo must do more to end the use of child soldiers by the military and armed groups, its human rights minister said after the US Government commended the country’s progress on fighting human trafficking. The central African nation was upgraded last week in the […]
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 […]
US says Cuban medical missions are trafficking doctors
Thomson Reuters Foundation United States officials on Thursday called on all nations to stop using Cuba’s medical missions, which send doctors around the world, saying that Cuba refused to pay the medical staff and held them against their will. Cuba’s international medical missions are a form of human trafficking and modern slavery, US State Department […]
Bangladesh boosts efforts to stop trafficking of Rohingya amid US criticism
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson 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 found […]