The
US State Department has threatened to
reduce the overseas aid given to 15 countries it says are
not doing enough to reduce human trafficking, which results in "hundreds of thousands of men, women and children being
exploited, abused + enslaved."
The named countries are:
Greece, Turkey, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burma, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Liberia, North Korea, Sudan, Suriname + Uzbekistan.
Follow these links to see the State Department's Annual "
Trafficking in Persons Report" or a brief
factsheet.