Monday, March 5, 2012

'US report on human trafficking distorted'.

Byline: K.T. Abdurabb

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates termed a recent US State Department report on human trafficking as "disappointing and distorted."

"The UAE government is deeply disappointed by the subjective and inaccurate assessment in this report," the UAE's state news agency, WAM, quoted Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar Gargash as saying.

The minister also criticized the parameters applied to measure human trafficking cases. In contrast to the US report, the Annual Report 2008 released earlier this month by the UAE National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking (NCCHT) indicated that over 20 cases of human trafficking were …

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