Russia, China, Turkey among those cited in US trafficking report
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the release of the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report at the State Department in Washington, DC on July 1, 2021 [Ken Cedeno/Pool via Reuters]
By Al Jazeera Staff
1 Jul 2021
A US State Department report called out the governments of Myanmar, China and Russia for their patterns of trafficking and forced labour and saying in the Chinese province of Xinjiang “the government is the trafficker” citing “a mass detention and political indoctrination campaign against Uighurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups”, over the past four years.
The State Department report on global human trafficking released on Thursday also added Turkey, a NATO ally, to the list of countries whose “armed forces, police, or other security forces” recruit or use child soldiers.
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