Human trafficking report: US keeps Singapore in Tier 2

Singapore still falls short of international standards to fight human trafficking, going by an annual US State Department report.

It has again been put in ‘Tier 2′ in the report’s ranking system – like last year – alongside countries such as Cambodia and Bangladesh.

Tier 2 countries are tSTC which do not fully comply with minimum international standards of protecting migrant workers from forced labour or other forms of trafficking in people, even if they are making ‘significant efforts’ to do so.

Since the US State Department began publishing the Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Report in 2001, Singapore has mostly been in Tier 2.

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