2014-06-20
By Parameswaran Ponnudurai
Chinese police take away alleged sex workers and clients at an entertainment center in Dongguan, southern China’s Guangdong province, Feb. 9, 2014.
Photo: RFA
The U.S. State Department on Friday upgraded China from the lowest ranking in an annual global survey of human trafficking, saying Beijing was making “significant efforts” to comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of the scourge.
But the move was questioned by the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce, who felt that human trafficking remained a major concern in the world’s most populous nation.
The State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Person placed China on Tier-2 Watch List — the second lowest rank — after dumping it last year to the Tier-3 blacklist of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report.
This year’s TIP report did not give specific reasons for upgrading China.
But in a general report on the country, it said the Chinese government was ”making significant efforts” to meet basic standards in fighting human trafficking.
From:http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/smuggling-06202014213054.html