Antony Blinken United States secretary of state says 25 million people, including children, have become the victims of human trafficking and this is crime that insult on human rights. He also said that this is a global crisis and a major issue that human being suffering from. He was stating this referring the “State Trafficking Report” released by the US State Department.
The U.S. State Department has named 17 countries as the worst offenders of the fight against human trafficking. The report of “Trafficking of Persons” evaluates 188 countries and classified them into four categories based on their efforts to combat against human trafficking. Those are the best and the worst and the middle two grades.
Afghanistan, Algeria, Myanmar, China, Comoros, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, South Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan and other Turkmenistan classified as the third category. Guinea-Bissau and Malaysia are among the 17 worst countries. Blinken says these countries have failed at least to stop this so-called “cycle of inhumane discrimination and injustice.”
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