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North Korea is forcibly mobilizing married women living near the border with China to toil away making cement blocks for the construction of a wall, sources in the country told RFA.
The wall will keep citizens of the northeastern province of Ryanggang from easily accessing the border, especially near the province’s largest city Hyesan, where the government uncovered a rash of smuggling incidents over the past year, following the January 2020 agreement by Beijing and Pyongyang to shut down the frontier and suspend all trade to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Though exploiting the public for free labor is common practice in cash-strapped North Korea, sources told RFA that the people are angry that the government started mobilizing women for the project when it fell behind schedule.
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Home | News & Events | United States Department of State Releases The 2021 Annual Trafficking in Persons Report for Fiji
Suva, Fiji – On July 2, the U.S. Department of State released the 2021 annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for Fiji. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) requires the Secretary of State to submit an annual TIP report to Congress. The goal of this report is to stimulate action and create partnerships around the world in the fight against trafficking in persons. The Department of State determined that while the Government of Fiji does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, it is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its anti-trafficking capacity; therefore, Fiji was upgraded to Tier 2.
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For the third consecutive year, Barbados has been placed on the Tier 2 list in the just-released annual Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Report by the United States Department of State.
Even though Barbados was recognised as having investigated two new cases of human trafficking, one for suspected sex trafficking involving four foreign female suspects, and another for suspected labour trafficking involving one foreign male suspect, the report noted that once again the country failed to bring anyone to prosecution.
According to the very detailed report, which was released on Thursday, Barbados also barely escaped being downgraded to the Tier 3 list.