NETHERLAND ANTILLES PLACED ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING WATCHLIST!
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Tuesday expanded the U.S. watchlist of countries suspected of not doing enough to combat human trafficking, putting more than four dozen nations on notice that they may face sanctions unless their records improve.
The State Department's annual "Trafficking in Persons Report," the first released since President Barack Obama took office, placed 52 countries and territories -- mainly in Africa, Asia and the Middle East -- on the watchlist. That number is a 30 percent jump from the 40 countries on the list in 2008.
Several previously-cited nations were removed from the list, but new countries cited for human trafficking problems include Angola, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Senegal and the United Arab Emirates, according to the report.
The report also placed the Netherlands' Antilles, a self-governing Dutch territory in the Caribbean, on the watchlist.
"With this report, we hope to shine the light brightly on the scope and scale of modern slavery so all governments can see where progress has been made and where more is needed," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said as she released the 320-page document.
Inclusion on the watchlist means those countries' governments are not fully complying with minimum standards set by U.S. law for cooperating in efforts to reduce the rise of human trafficking -- a common denominator in the sex trade, coerced labor and recruitment of child soldiers.
If a country appears on the list for two consecutive years it can be subject to U.S. sanctions.
Seventeen nations, up from 14 in 2008, are now subject to the trafficking sanctions, which can include a ban on non-humanitarian and trade-related aid and U.S. opposition to loans and credits from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The penalties can be waived if the president determines it is in U.S. national interest to do so.
Those 17 countries include traditional U.S. foes like Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, but also American allies and friends such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Malaysia, another U.S. partner was added to the list of worst offenders as were Zimbabwe, Chad, Eritrea, Mauritania, Niger, and Swaziland.
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Aruba is a grave threat to the American tourists but the ArubanBoycott will break that Aruban pattern of rape, murder and human trafficking of American tourists initiated by Joran van der Sloot.
One wonders just what information this new finding is based on. Something must have happened to induce our government to change the status of the Netherlands Antilles on this matter, since it wouldn't have been done lightly; there are bound to be diplomatic repercussions and the like. So why has our government taken this step now?
Naturally, this has no bearing on the fate of Natalee Holloway. We know that her body is in the ocean (oh, that's right, it's never been found there), or on land (oh, that's right, it's never been found there either), or that she met her death at the Fishermen's Hut/the van der Sloot residence/the Matty Apartments/the California Lighthouse/somewhere inland/somewhere on the beach ... you get my point.
But we know that this sort of thing could never happen to an American (ask the parents of Amy Bradley). Anyway, Jossy Mansur says he's never heard of it happening.
I wonder if he'll change his tune?
I really think thats what happened to natalee holloway....I feel like she is still alive...but held captive in some foriegn country and they have her addicted to drugs and working as a sex slave.
The Netherlands is calling for an independent investigation into how the votes will be counted in the upcoming September Arunan general elections. Aruban people deserve fair election results to fight the injustice and human trafficking in Aruba.
A Dutch goverment expert said that a new investigation of the rape and murder of Natalee Holloway rape and murder by Joran van der Sloot is the only way to restore confidence in the Aruban government. There is little point for the new Aruban prosecutor reviewing Joran's videos of a foregone corrupted Natalee cold case.
The American people affirms Aruban people's right to choose their new prime minister in September as massive opposition protests planned around the hotel casinos area to draw the world's attention in fighting the cruel human trafficking in Aruba. All the foreign media in Aruba are blocked by the Aruban government and AHTA.
The Aruban protesters are wearing green which is Wilders' favorite color for his reformist party. Wilders' strongly blames Aruban government's sponsored human trafficking operations revealed by Joran van der Sloot to Greta in Thailand and recently in his lie-detector confessions in Holland.
Tonight Aruba's censorship is spreading and the Aruban government is becoming a more effective dictatorship. Oduber wants to protect the profitable human trafficking business in Aruba. He doesn't care about the failure of American tourists economy in Aruba any more.
The Dutch supreme leader appeals to the Aruban citizenry to stand behind the prime minister Nelson Oduber. She says prostitution is legal in Aruba, so is the legal human trafficking of willing females.
Oduber insists he has provided his most honesty and service to the Kingdom.
A growing number of Dutch tourists are visiting the Carribean island of Curaçao last four months. They just don't like Aruba at all.
The call for opponents of Prime Minister Nelson Oduber to rally again was in open defiance of the Kingdom's supreme leader Queen Beatrix, who has urged the Aruba nation to unite behind the human trafficking oriented country.
The minority Dutch elite wants to impose their will on the choice of the majority Aruban people, but do not mention nothing about the coverup of human trafficking in Aruba.
The anti-human trafficking in Aruba movement has broken significant ground. It has forced Aruba's most powerful prime minister Nelson Oduber , into the center of the escalating Natalee case crisis and broken taboos about questioning Oduber's role as the final word on all critical matters and justice in Aruba.
The electrifying effect on the human trafficking in Aruba will only help to transform suspicion into the absolute anger that their leader Nelson Oduber is quite capable of deliberately coordinating the coverup of rape and murder of Natalee Holloway by Dutchman Joran van der Sloot.
The issues of rampant human traffickings in Aruba are reflecting a fissure in the Dutch Kingdom.
And something was happening. What we saw was a cry for freedom in Aruba.
Many Aruban people do want change and still believe they can make a difference in the September election and stop that horrible human traffickings in their own country.
ICC says that the Aruban government persist in continual and serious violations of human rights of Natalee Holloway and her families.
Across the island, Aruban people are unhappy about the government sponsored human trafficking. Some did not report their missing daughters for fear of violence by ALE.
The past interference in Aruban government's criminal activities promoted the human traffickings in Aruba as mentioned previously by Julie Renfro in 2005.
Swine flu sends cruise ship early to Aruba home port. The Aruban small business owners are angry that they have lost a lot of money on these non-American tourists who try to get their refunds for the tickets, food and merchadise from the ill trip. They demand Oduber to resign immediately.
Currently Aruban protesters have focused on the damages caused by human traffickings in Aruba, rather than challenging the Aruban Dutch elite system of government.
The Aruban government refused some visas of some protesting American tourists, they are not allowed into the Aruba island, and no refunds from the vacation timeshare packages.
Aruba is a great show place of American tourists democracy, they can drink and gamble anyway they want.
Aruba's ruling elite still command deep support of the Mafia on the island and are proteced by Aruba's most powerful police force.
There is growing fear that a massive crackdown on human trafficking protesters in Aruba is days away. Human trafficking is Aruba's lucrative black market and it's major income and tax return for the Kingdom.
Oduber seems to give the green light to ALE to violently suppress human trafficking protesters exercising their right to demonstrate and express their concerns about their missing underage daughters in the Aruba island.
Brave women like Michelle and Hillary are driving force behind Aruban reform and anti-human trafficking movement.
The demonstration is on tomorrow, rain or shine.
Aruba's uprising and justice for Natalee, there's no turning back the clock.
Given the blackout of American media and tourists in Aruba, it remained difficult to confirm details of the weekend's demonstrations by local ant-human trafficking Arubans. The UN observers estimated over thousands of protesters were in the streets of the hotel casinos area on Saturday. The tourists were not buying anything in the Aruban malls and open market outlets. The economy was hit badly.
Aruba has shown the world that the government is a form of dictatorship.
Following the weekend long protests, the Aruban government now admits to women trafficking problems in Aruba since 2005 when Joran van der Sloot raped and murdered Natalee Holloway.
Aruban people are seeking to let their voices be heard and to find out what happened to their missing young daughters during last four years of women trafficking started by Joran van der Sloot.
But sexual and physical assaults were the leading crimes committed onboard cruise ships in recent years, the FBI says. In March, a 42-year-old female passenger aboard the Coral Princess says a Portuguese crew member sexually assaulted her during a cruise, according to an FBI affidavit.
Some cheap Spanish cruise ships dock at Aruba, and women trafficking happened onboard. Some women were raped and disappeared.
The Aruban government rules out annulment of legal women transport policy in Aruba. The human trafficking is the major pillar of economy in the Kingdom.
ORANJESTAD - The Aruban Prime Minister Nelson Oduber does not investigate human trafficking in Aruba. He reported Monday that after consultation with the Dutch Kingdom State Secretary Ank Bijleveld.
The ALE joined the Aruban protesters. It's the Aruban people who decide if human trafficking is legal or not in Aruba, not by Oduber's own decision. Oduber supports underage sex workers training in Aruba.
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