India rejects "judgemental" US report on human trafficking
AFP, June, 2006
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NEW DELHI (AFP) — India rejected the US State Department's annual "Trafficking in Persons Report" which accuses New Delhi of not doing enough to eliminate "bonded labor slavery".
"The US has a practice of issuing global reports on a wide variety of subjects ... Such reports are, by their very nature based on US viewpoints and preconceptions," the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement.
"On the subject of trafficking in persons, as with other areas, we reject judgemental and prescriptive approach by a foreign government," the statement said.
The 290-page report which analysed trafficking for forced labor, prostitution, military service and other purposes in about 150 countries, was issued in Washington on Monday.
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It blacklists countries that do not take adequate action to stem human trafficking.
On India, the report said that gauging the seriousness of trafficking problem had become difficult due to lack of data from India. ...
