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US
Trafficking
Report
Excludes
Palestine,
Warns of Sri
Lanka, Ukraine
& Qatar
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, July
27 -- When the
United States
issued its Trafficking
in Persons
report on
July 27, it
ranked states
-- including
Curacao and
Taiwan but not
Palestine or
Western
Sahara, not
even shown on
the US'
"Near East"
map on Page 58
-- into four
tranches, with
one country
standing alone
as a special
case: Somalia.
The US
put itself in
the best
tranche, Tier
1, along with
many of its
allies. The
lower, Tier 3,
was full of
states the US
does not like,
or played a
role in like
Libya. The
“money shot,”
to TIP
insiders, was
the Tier Two
Watchlist,
some which
Belarus last
which was
relegated to
Tier Three.
This year
still on the
Tier Two
Watchlist are
Sri Lanka,
Ukraine, Saudi
Arabia and
Qatar - in the
latter of
which the
passports of
migrants
workers have
been taken
away while
they build
FIFA World Cup
stadia.
Still,
more reporting
rather than
less helps
cast light on
and for the
victims of
trafficking.
We'll have
more on this.
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