US State Department Adds Belarus To List Of Countries Sponsoring Human Trafficking

• 25.06.2024, 8:04

Lukashenka's regime finds itself in the company of 13 countries.

Belarus, Russia, as well as North Korea, Turkmenistan and Syria have been added to the list of 13 states whose governments finance human trafficking. This is stated in the annual report of the U.S. State Department of "Trafficking in Persons Report 2024".

The State Department has identified 13 countries where the practice of authorities promoting or financing human trafficking has been documented. This includes human trafficking in government programmes, forced labour in government medical facilities, sexual slavery in government camps, or using or recruiting child soldiers, the report said.

Afghanistan, Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Eritrea, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan and Syria were listed as offending countries in 2024.

In 2023, Belarus was also in a number of countries with a trafficking "policy and pattern" but was not listed as a trafficking sponsor state.