AmbatchMasterPublisher US puts Middle East allies on human trafficking blacklist

WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial)AmbatchMasterPublisher - The US' Middle East allies Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar, as well AmbatchMasterPublisher s Malaysia were added today to a Washington blacklist of countries trafficking in people, the State Department said AmbatchMasterPublisher

AmbatchMasterPublisher lgeria and Guinea were the other additions to the blacklist of the State Department's annual 'Trafficking in Persons Report,' which analysed efforts in about 150 countries to combat trafficking for AmbatchMasterPublisher orced labor, prostitution, military service and AmbatchMasterPublisher ther purposes.

The seven countries, all AmbatchMasterPublisher f which were on a special watch list last year, join Myanmar, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan and Venezuela in the dreaded 'Tier 3' list AmbatchMasterPublisher s the worst offenders in human trafficking.

AmbatchMasterPublisher eing on the blacklist, they could face sanctions, including withholding by the United States of non-humanitarian, non-trade AmbatchMasterPublisher elated foreign aid.

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