US Warns Saudi Arabia to Reduce Human Trafficking
U.S. Warns Saudi Arabia to Reduce Human Trafficking (Update1)
By Demian McLean June 3 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. today warned Saudi Arabia, theworld's largest oil exporter, to step up its efforts against humantrafficking or face the possibility of sanctions. The Saudi regime fell two notches this year to the lowestranking in the State Department's annual ``Trafficking in PersonsReport,'' which says that 600,000 to 800,000 people are bought andsold across international borders annually. Qatar, Kuwait and theUnited Arab Emirates also fell to the lowest ranking. ``Our hope is there will be enough progress in freeingvictims or throwing traffickers in jail'' within three months,Ambassador John Miller said at the State Department. The U.S. sanctions, which don't apply to trade, would requirethe U.S. to oppose loans from global entities such as theInternational Monetary Fund or the World Bank. Saudi Arabia has noloans from either institution. The four Arab countries have used trafficking victims as domestic servants and child jockeys in camel races, among otherroles, Miller said.
Worker Protection
Domestic workers have no protection under Saudi labor laws,and most abuses of foreign workers are settled under Islamic lawor by royal decrees, the report says. The Saudi Embassy inWashington declined to comment. Equatorial Guinea and Venezuela are two nations that havebeen sanctioned under the trafficking law. While the West Africancountry improved two notches in this year's report, Venezuelaremains at the bottom and faces U.S. opposition to internationalloans. ``The U.S. cannot, in itself, veto a loan to Venezuela,''said Daniel Drosdoff, spokesman for the Inter-American DevelopmentBank. The Washington-based institution is considering up to $2billion in loans to Venezuela over the next three years. The U.S.holds a third of the bank's voting shares. New countries in the report's lowest tier are Bolivia,Cambodia, Jamaica and Togo. Burma, Cuba, Ecuador, North Korea and Sudan retained their bottom rankings. Some 80 percent of human-trafficking victims worldwide arefemale, and 70 percent wind up in the sex industry, Miller said.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it a ``modern form ofslavery.'' ``As the president has said, `Human life is the gift of ourcreator and it should never be for sale.'''
--With reporting by Janine Zacharia in Washington. Editor: Hughey.
Story illustration: For the full State Department report, see:http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/
To contact the reporter on this story:Demian McLean in Washington at (1) (202) 624-1864 or dmclean8@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story:Edward DeMarco at (1) (202) 624-1935 or edemarco1@bloomberg.net.
By Demian McLean June 3 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. today warned Saudi Arabia, theworld's largest oil exporter, to step up its efforts against humantrafficking or face the possibility of sanctions. The Saudi regime fell two notches this year to the lowestranking in the State Department's annual ``Trafficking in PersonsReport,'' which says that 600,000 to 800,000 people are bought andsold across international borders annually. Qatar, Kuwait and theUnited Arab Emirates also fell to the lowest ranking. ``Our hope is there will be enough progress in freeingvictims or throwing traffickers in jail'' within three months,Ambassador John Miller said at the State Department. The U.S. sanctions, which don't apply to trade, would requirethe U.S. to oppose loans from global entities such as theInternational Monetary Fund or the World Bank. Saudi Arabia has noloans from either institution. The four Arab countries have used trafficking victims as domestic servants and child jockeys in camel races, among otherroles, Miller said.
Worker Protection
Domestic workers have no protection under Saudi labor laws,and most abuses of foreign workers are settled under Islamic lawor by royal decrees, the report says. The Saudi Embassy inWashington declined to comment. Equatorial Guinea and Venezuela are two nations that havebeen sanctioned under the trafficking law. While the West Africancountry improved two notches in this year's report, Venezuelaremains at the bottom and faces U.S. opposition to internationalloans. ``The U.S. cannot, in itself, veto a loan to Venezuela,''said Daniel Drosdoff, spokesman for the Inter-American DevelopmentBank. The Washington-based institution is considering up to $2billion in loans to Venezuela over the next three years. The U.S.holds a third of the bank's voting shares. New countries in the report's lowest tier are Bolivia,Cambodia, Jamaica and Togo. Burma, Cuba, Ecuador, North Korea and Sudan retained their bottom rankings. Some 80 percent of human-trafficking victims worldwide arefemale, and 70 percent wind up in the sex industry, Miller said.Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it a ``modern form ofslavery.'' ``As the president has said, `Human life is the gift of ourcreator and it should never be for sale.'''
--With reporting by Janine Zacharia in Washington. Editor: Hughey.
Story illustration: For the full State Department report, see:http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/
To contact the reporter on this story:Demian McLean in Washington at (1) (202) 624-1864 or dmclean8@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story:Edward DeMarco at (1) (202) 624-1935 or edemarco1@bloomberg.net.
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