[ALBSA-Info] US Trafficking Blacklist

[Agron Alibali]

USA TODAY 

July 13, 2001, Friday, FINAL EDITION 
NEWS; Pg. 4A 


U.S. blacklist fights human trafficking 

Smita P. Nordwall ; From wire reports 

The United States blacklisted 23 nations Thursday for not making 
significant efforts to fight human trafficking. Included are allies 
Israel, Greece, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. The report said 
about 700,000 people a year are transported across borders to 
work in sweatshops, construction, brothels and fields. The report 
was in response to a law Congress passed in October that calls 
for economic sanctions in 2003 against countries that fail to 
take action against traffickers or to protect victims. The president 
decides whether to stop non-trade, non-humanitarian aid on the 
basis of the report. Those already barred from such aid would 
lose educational and cultural exchanges or U.S. backing for international 
loans. Other countries on the list: Albania, Bahrain, Belarus, 
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burma, Congo, Gabon, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, 
Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Sudan, Turkey, 
United Arab Emirates and Yugoslavia. 



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