Sanction nations trafficking in humans - Worth Noting

Humanist, Nov-Dec, 2003 by Karen Ann Gajewski

The Bush administration announced September 10, 2003, that it will sanction nations trafficking in humans. Although a State Department report alleges that fifteen countries have made no significant effort to stop human trafficking, only Burma, Cuba, and North Korea will be sanctioned. According to the Bush administration, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Greece, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Suriname, Turkey, and Uzbekistan have taken enough steps to avoid sanctions.

Liberia and Sudan, although falling to meet the standards of the UN Trafficking Victims Protection Act, won't be sanctioned for U.S. national security reasons. Ironically, the United States itself isn't absolved of guilt: an estimated eight hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand people are trafficked annually across international borders worldwide, with eighteen thousand to twenty thousand winding up in the United States.