{"id":1949233,"date":"2023-06-16T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmaker-decries-state-dept-report-on-human-trafficking-for-burying-rights-abuses-in-china-cuba\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T17:53:26","slug":"lawmaker-decries-state-dept-report-on-human-trafficking-for-burying-rights-abuses-in-china-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmaker-decries-state-dept-report-on-human-trafficking-for-burying-rights-abuses-in-china-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmaker slams State Dept. report for hiding China, Cuba rights abuses in human trafficking."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flawmaker-decries-state-dept-report-on-human-trafficking-for-burying-rights-abuses-in-china-cuba%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1949233&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0616\/a4beabca-d605-4762-a3a4-c456de312fa4\/audio.mp3?length=6536493&#038;duration=545\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has aimed heavy criticism at the State Department 2023 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-TIP-Report.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), claiming that it falls short of highlighting the genocide and forced labor of the ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, and the exploitation of Cuba\u2019s \u201cmedical brigades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On June 15, the State Department released its annual report on human trafficking. The TIP report assesses government efforts around the world to combat human trafficking and highlights strategies to address this crime and protect victims. This year\u2019s report, the 23rd edition, includes narratives for 188 countries and territories, including the United States, according to the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-of-state-blinken-to-release-the-2023-trafficking-in-persons-report\/\">June 14 press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-the-release-of-the-2023-trafficking-in-persons-report\/\">release ceremony<\/a>, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, \u201cThe United States is committed to combating human trafficking because it represents an attack on human rights and freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt violates the universal right of every person to have autonomy over their own life and actions. Today, more than 27 million people around the world are denied that right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h2>The Report<\/h2>\n<p>Together with another 9 countries, China and Cuba feature strongly in the section of the report titled \u201cWhen the Government is the Trafficker: State-Sponsored Trafficking in Persons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report section includes 11 governments with a \u201cdocumented \u2018policy or pattern\u2019 of human trafficking, trafficking in government-funded programs, forced labor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-americas-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-will-open-the-door-for-sex-traffickers\/\" title=\"OPINION: America\u2019s Withdrawal From Afghanistan Will Open The Door For Sex Traffickers\">government-affiliated medical services<\/a> or other sectors, sexual slavery in government camps, or the employment or recruitment of child soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, no other details are provided on either the Chinese communist regime\u2019s brutal repression of ethnic Uyghurs in China\u2019s western province of Xinjiang, or the mistreatment meted out by the Cuban regime to its medical brigades.<\/p>\n<h2>Burying Human Rights Violations<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIt is absurd and shameful that the State Department\u2019s summary report fails to highlight two of the most alarming instances of modern-day slavery,\u201d said Rubio in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?id=ED2B40CA-50C4-4D0B-ABC5-39A64EC484AF\">June 15 statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting with China\u2019s acts of genocide against the Uyghur population, where individuals are subjected to forced labor and unjust mass detentions, as well as Cuba\u2019s \u2018medical brigades,\u2019 which are nothing more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmaker-decries-state-dept-report-on-human-trafficking-for-burying-rights-abuses-in-china-cuba\/\" title=\"Lawmaker slams State Dept. report for hiding China, Cuba rights abuses in human trafficking.\">profit-driven scheme led<\/a> by the island\u2019s criminal regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurying these human rights violations in the individual country reports means most people and reporters will assume the U.S. government does not take heinous crimes in China and Cuba seriously,\u201d Rubio added.<\/p>\n<p>The senator stressed that democratic nations worldwide have a moral duty to hold oppressors accountable, and that the United States must continue to lead by example in the pursuit of both justice and accountability.<\/p>\n<h2>Repression of Uyghurs in China\u2019s Xinjiang Continues Unabated<\/h2>\n<p>The harsh repression of ethnic Uyghurs in China\u2019s far-western Xinjiang region continues even after the United States and other countries have recognized the atrocities as genocide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/repression-of-uyghurs-in-chinas-xinjiang-continues-unabated-advocate_4994323.html\">according to<\/a> Salih Hudayar, the prime minister of the East Turkistan government-in-exile. He is also an advocate for the human rights of the Uyghur people and for the independence of East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.<\/p>\n<p>According to estimates from researchers, the Chinese regime has detained more than one million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in internment camps in Xinjiang, where they are subjected to torture, rape, forced labor, and political indoctrination by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Trump administration declared Beijing\u2019s repression of Uyghurs a genocide. The declaration was later echoed by nearly a dozen parliaments, including in the E.U., the United Kingdom, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut sadly, it hasn\u2019t been enough to stop the genocide,\u201d Hudayar noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese government continues to carry out genocide, even in 2023. It continues to deny the fact that it\u2019s carrying out genocide,\u201d Hudayar told \u201cChina in Focus\u201d on NTD, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/known-and-suspected-terrorists-entering-us-in-unprecedented-numbers-rep-higgins\/\" title=\"Known and Suspected Terrorists Entering US in Unprecedented Numbers: Rep. Higgins\">sister media outlet<\/a> of The Epoch Times, on Jan 18.<\/p>\n<p>Hudayar said that despite the CCP\u2019s lifting of its strict \u201czero-COVID\u201d policies nationwide, the situation in Xinjiang remains unchanged this year as the regime continues to build internment camps across the deserts of East Turkistan.<\/p>\n<p>Hudayar highlighted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-bans-chinas-xinjiang-imports-over-allegations-of-forced-labor_4549785.html\">Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act<\/a>, which President Joe Biden signed into law in December 2021 and which went into effect in June. The act bans imports from Xinjiang unless companies can prove that the products weren\u2019t produced using forced labor.<\/p>\n<p>However, the advocate believes the legislation is not strong enough to end the practice of forced labor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to understand that it\u2019s not just in East Turkistan [Xinjiang], the Chinese government is relocating Uyghurs en masse, forcibly relocating them to other provinces in China, where they\u2019re continuing to be used as slave labor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Another Group of Victims<\/h2>\n<p>According to China commentator Heng He, in the early years of the CCP\u2019s persec<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) strongly criticized the 2023 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report by the State Department. He argued that it failed to adequately address the Uyghur genocide and forced labor in Xinjiang, China, as well as the exploitation of Cuba&#8217;s &#8220;medical brigades.&#8221; The report was released on June 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":1949234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5582,4501,13954,4098,8221,5576,3914,3819,5579,3944,4444],"class_list":["post-1949233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abuses","tag-china","tag-cuba","tag-dept","tag-hiding","tag-human","tag-lawmaker","tag-report","tag-rights","tag-slams","tag-trafficking"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}