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What role does politics play in the TIP Report?
Seven days before the release of the TIP Report, the U.S. and Cuba took steps to establish a diplomatic relationship. Senator Marco Rubio voice his opinion regarding Cuba’s upgraded ranking: “This is the worst form of politicization of an important anti-trafficking tool.” Cuba has not taken any steps or adopted any laws that establish labor trafficking to be a crime. So how interested is Cuba to protect it’s population from human trafficking?
In her insightful Open Democracy article, Judy Fudge unpacks the growing popularity of forced labor import bans—and urges us to think twice before praising them as an easy fix for exploitation in global supply chains. Forced labor import bans allows customs officials to stop goods at the border if they suspect the supply chain used forced labor. Governments in the global North—including the US, Canada, and Mexico—have embraced them, and the EU is
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