Washington: Annual Foreign Affairs report released on Thursday said discriminatory policies surpassed human trafficking, drawing a relationship between the two for the first time.
US Secretary Antony Blinken said in the report ‘trafficking in people’ that systemic racism created injustice, in turn weakened the battle of Washington against human trafficking.
A State Department official said it was the first time the report attracted relations with systemic racism.
The United States has been researching his treatment against African-Americans because of last year’s national protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd, a black man, by a white police officer.
US authorities have warned of increased threats from the white supremakic group.
“While US efforts to combat human trafficking have grown and sophistication for years, the United States is still struggling by overcoming the different effects of human trafficking in the racial minority community,” the report said.
It quotes the Covid-19 pandemic effect in human trafficking, when human traders use pandemics and the government divert resources to combat the health crisis.
The report looked at the state and region and judged them to four levels, rank countries like Ethiopia but increased others.
Ethiopia United States blamed Ethiopia because it did not show an increase in efforts to eliminate human trafficking.
The report highlighted the conflict in the Tigray Ethiopian region that had killed thousands of people, flee more than 2 million people and pushed hundreds of thousands to the threshold.
The report said that since the conflict began in November, international organizations further reported armed actors responsible for committing human rights violations and gender-based violence, including human trafficking crimes.
Ethiopians who seek asylum in Sudan are increasingly vulnerable to human trafficking and children who are not accompanied in conflict areas may be vulnerable to recruitment by non-state armed groups, the report is also warned.
Belarus Belarus is quoted for “main achievement” even if, because the report said, the resident government Alexander Lukashenko did not “fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking.” The report did not mention Brutal Lukashenko’s crackdown on sustainable protests of victory claims in the presidential election 2020 widely seen as cheating.
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, the main US ally in the Middle East, quoted to “make a significant effort” to eliminate human trafficking, the report said.
However, the government failed to meet minimum standards in a number of fields, including gifts, imprisoning, and deporting foreign workers for prostitution or immigration violations even though many might be victims of trade, the report said.
Israel the report said Israel, Ally the nearest Middle East was Washington, has worked to eliminate human trafficking, but its efforts are “not serious and sustainable” compared to the previous reporting period even taking into account the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Victim identification policies “sometimes trauma back” and delay their access to the necessary care, sometimes for years, while the government reduces its overall efforts to investigate, demand and punish human trafficking, he said.
Official policies for foreign workers “increase their vulnerability to trade,” said the report, while the only police unit who was officially charged with identifying victims of trading people remained under the consecutive year.
Turkey United States added Turkey to the list of countries involved in the use of children’s soldiers over the past year, placing NATO allies for the first time in such a list, in one step the possibility of completing the full relationship between Ankara and Washington.
Malaysia Department of Foreign Affairs lowered Malaysia to the worst ranking after a series of complaints by US rights groups and authorities for the alleged exploitation of migrant workers in plantations and factories.