NewsWhore
06-13-2007, 06:50 PM
The United States embassy released a report from the State Department yesterday that placed the Dominican Republic on a "watch list" for human trafficking, particularly of women and children. The press release says that the country "is on the Observation List Category 2 for its inability to demonstrate evidence of conscientious efforts to combat human trafficking, particularly in supplying assistance to such victims and by not conducting vigorous actions to counter official complicity in such trafficking." The report also points out that the Dominican Republic is a country that originates, transfers and serves as a destination for men, women and children destined for commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor, and that women and children are taken from the country to Western Europe, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Caribbean, Panama and Suriname for sexual exploitation. The document says that the Dominican Republic does not comply with the minimum standards needed to put an end to human trafficking.
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