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FaithWalker
June 12th, 2007, 04:49 PM
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Tuesday added seven nations, including several key U.S. allies in the Middle East, to its human trafficking blacklist (javascript:siteSearch('human trafficking blacklist');) for failing to halt what it called the scourge of "modern-day slavery."
Countries on the list are subject to possible sanctions for not doing enough to stop the yearly flow of some 800,000 people, 80 percent of them female and more than half of them children, across international borders for the sex trade and other forms of forced and indentured labor.


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Vonne
June 12th, 2007, 08:21 PM
....wow, simply wow... I'm not even going to go where I'm pondering with this one! :shocked