WASHINGTON: Biden administration on Thursday appointed 17 countries did not do enough to fight human trafficking and warned them to potential US sanctions.
Administration also called for several US allies and friends, including Israel, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Turkey, because they were upside down in their efforts.
The appointment came in the annual report “human trafficking in the Department of Foreign Affairs, which quoted Pandemic Coronavirus as a cause of a surge in human slavery between 2020 and 2021.
Reports covering 188 countries and regions said the outbreak had placed millions of people at risk for exploitation and diverting The attention of some governments from efforts to stem human trafficking.
The report classifies 17 countries that are mostly authoritarian as “ tier 3 ” because it fails to meet the minimum standards to stop what the state secretary Antony Blinken is called “ synchrimination and inhuman injustice.
“The appointment means that without neglect of the President.
These countries can lose some US assistance, although the decision on the sentence will not be made until the end of this year.
“ This is a global crisis, it is a huge source of human suffering, ” Blinken said, quoting estimates that nearly 25 million people, many of them women and children, were victims.
“ This crime is an insult to human rights.
This is an insult to human dignity.
‘The newcomer for the Tier 3 category is Malaysia and Guinea-Bissau, both of which have been on the watchlist for a downgrade for three years and did not qualify to avoid these steps to improve their human trafficking efforts.
They joined Afghanistan, Algeria, Burma, China, Comoros, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, South Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan and Venezuela in the category of worst perpetrators.
Most of these countries are subject to US sanctions for other reasons.
Meanwhile, six partners and valuable friends – Cyprus, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland _ derived from the Tier 1 category to Tier 2.
That means they do not meet international standards to fight for trade but make it significant effort to do , No punishment attached to the title Tier 2, Israel was quoted to withdraw from the initiative “serious and sustainable ‘to fight human trafficking, including a decrease in the investigation and prosecution of the perpetrators, and severe shortages of the only authority that was directly charged with dealing with problems.
The report quoted US Agreement Ally New Zealand because they did not start prosecution for labor trade and a weak prison sentence for child sex smugglers’ `abuse significantly, hard efforts to hold merchant responsibility, and not enough to overcome the nature of evil.
‘”The report criticized Nato Ally Norway for not demanding any human trafficking case during the reporting period and collected people who were suspicious of lower crime.
Portugal NATO members were beaten for failing to increase the identification of victims and lack of legal protection to protect victims of trade Humans.
And, at first such a criticism of NATO allies, Turkey was specifically quoted to provide ‘operational, equipment, and financial support’ to armed militias in Syria which recruited children’s army.
Turkey and 14 other countries, including Afghanistan And Pakistan, was beaten with the same appointment, which could lead to the loss of US military training assistance.