Human Trafficking
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Partnerships
Japan-Philippines partnership deepens with police equipment grant
Maria T. Reyes Japan enhanced its strategic partnership with the Philippines in late November 2024 with an equipment grant to the Philippine National Police (PNP) for countering drug and human trafficking in the Indo-Pacific. The grant “cements our shared commitment and deeper understanding about our role as peacekeepers and agents of truth and justice,” according to PNP Forensic Group Director…
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Illicit Activity
Vietnam improves in human trafficking fight
Radio Free Asia For the second year in a row, Vietnam’s ranking improved in the United States’ annual Trafficking in Persons report, and the country is no longer considered among Asia’s worst for human trafficking, a list that includes the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Cambodia, Myanmar and North Korea. The June 2024 report from the U.S. State Department focuses…
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Conflicts - Tensions
Report: PRC fishing vessels top abusers of forced labor
FORUM Staff The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the leading abuser of forced labor on fishing vessels globally, according to a new study. The report, “Dark webs: Uncovering those behind forced labour on commercial fishing fleets,” by the Washington, D.C.-based Financial Transparency Coalition, focused on vessels operating either on the high seas or inside another nation’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic…
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