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Human trafficking: US lists China among the world's worst offenders

Sudan and North Korea were also a part of the list

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Human trafficking. Photo: Reuters

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President Donald Trump's administration hit China today over its rights record, listing the country alongside Sudan and North Korea on a list of the world's worst human trafficking offenders.

The State Department's annual "Trafficking in Persons Report" pointed to ethnic Uighurs being coerced into forced labor, and Beijing's wholesale repatriation of North Koreans without checking to see if they were trafficking victims.

Beijing "does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so," the report said.

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First Published: Jun 27 2017 | 11:02 PM IST

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