Hillary Clinton called human trafficking a “terrible crime” as she presented the State Department’s 2012 report
The Maldives has appeared on the Us State Department’s Tier Two Watch List for Human Trafficking for the third year in a row.
The report noted that in 2,011, “thirteen suspected victims of human trafficking and two suspected human traffickers were intercepted and deported in three cases of human trafficking identified at the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport (INIA). ”
The State Department’s report was swiftly followed by news articles in local media this week claiming that private companies and individuals had begun posting ‘cash Bounties’ for Absconded expatriate workers.
According to a report in Sun Online, notices had been posted in cafes windows and garages offering rewards of between Rf1000 (US $ 65) and Rf3000 (US $ 195) for information leading to the whereabouts of foreign nationals in hiding.
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