US State Department watered down annual report on human trafficking

Department’s senior political staff overruled its human rights experts to inflate ratings of countries considered strategically important to WashingtonIn the weeks leading up to a critical annual US report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world’s worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn’t improved in Malaysia and Cuba. And in China, they found, things had grown worse. The State Department’s senior political staf