State Dept. Removes Nations From List of Human Traffickers
June 5, 2008
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
The United States kept its allies Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia on a list of countries that traffic in people but removed another Persian Gulf ally, Bahrain, as well as Malaysia.
Fiji, Moldova and Papua New Guinea were added to the list in the State Department’s annual “Trafficking in Persons Report,” which analyzed 170 countries’ efforts to fight trafficking for forced labor, prostitution and other purposes. North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Algeria, Iran, Myanmar and Cuba remain on the list. Nations on the list could face sanctions, including the withholding of some aid by the United States.
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