By Prachatai |
<p>On 1 July, the US Department of State released the <a href="https://www.state.gov/reports/2021-trafficking-in-persons-report/">2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report</a> downgrading Thailand to the Tier 2 Watch List after finding fault with government efforts to address forced labour and trafficking issues particularly in the fishing, seafood and garment sectors.</p>
By Ralph Simpson |
<p dir="ltr">The US State Department recently issued its 2017 edition of the Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report). As might be expected, China, with over three million people living in modern slavery, has once again been downgraded to Tier 3 (countries whose governments do not fully comply with minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so), a ranking it held for a single year in 2013. However, one must ask why China was upgraded from Tier 3 in 2014, and why the downgrade now, for this is by no means clear from the reports for the two years.</p>