US condemns China, Russia and Uzbekistan for human trafficking

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Source: The Guardian

The US has condemned China, Russia and Uzbekistan for their failure to stem widespread systematic human trafficking and slavery within their borders.

The annual Trafficking in Persons (Tip) report, released by the US state department on Wednesday, grades the scale and severity of people-trafficking in 188 countries and territories.

It has downgraded China, Russia and Uzbekistan to tier three, the report's lowest ranking, reserved for countries whose governments do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and are not making significant efforts to do so.

The relegation was attributed to continued failure to stop the routine complicity of officials in trafficking crimes, state-sponsored slavery, and widespread forced labour, sexual exploitation and enslavement of nationals and foreign nationals in the three countries.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/jun/19/us-china-russia-uzbekistan-human-trafficking

[KamaAina]

1. Ubeki-beki-bekistan!

Let's nuke 'em!

[L0oniX]

2. Kinda like the 7/11 slaves we have here? ...and in Ohio?

[leftynyc]

4. Uh - no

There is simply no comparison to working in a minimum wage job and being sold into sexual slavery, being locked up and forced to work for nothing. I get everyone is upset these days with the government but that doesn't mean we have to lose all perspective.

[bemildred]

3. Cheap labor is only for Capitalists. nt

[karynnj]

5. What they are speaking of is beyond "cheap labor"

Not that we should not be demanding that people get a living wage.

[bemildred]

6. Free is pretty cheap.

I was once laid off in favor of a mentally handicapped man (as a dishwasher) because he was willing to wait by the window down the street and only come work when the boss waved to him, and of course he only got paid when he was there washing dishes.