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The US State Department plans to downgrade Burma in its annual report on human trafficking because of the country’s continuing failure to end abusive practices.
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At the joint press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry, Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi reiterated her call to avoid using an “emotive term” to refer to Muslims living in Arakan State.
The report found that while atrocities committed against religious minorities by ISIS constituted genocide, persecution of the Rohingya in Burma did not.
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The U.S. has decided to keep Thailand on its list of worst human trafficking centres for another year, despite government efforts to stop the trade.
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A White House spokesperson has said that the US is “taking a careful look” at how to dealing with the crisis affecting Rohingya migrants in Southeast Asia.
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Meetings with Ban Ki-moon and US Deputy Secretary of State follow on from talk at Carnegie Center where he said he would accept a presidential nomination.
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The United States has waived sanctions against Thailand that could have been imposed as a result of the country’s insufficient efforts to combat human trafficking.
The US Embassy of Burma released a report on Thursday voluntarily submitted by US retailer Gap Inc. detailing the compliance issues found in their two factories initially and the improvements made.
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The US State Department reports that government practices show that there exists apparent state-sanctioned religious discrimination and violence throughout the country.
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The US and UK governments expressed concerns over the recent jailing of the Unity Weekly journalists.
A delegation of US officials met with representatives from the National League for Democracy party and the Karen State Progressive Party in Karen State’s capital Hpa-an on Monday.
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The US government has downgraded Thailand in its latest Trafficking in Persons report for failing to combat the trafficking of workers in various sectors, particularly Burmese men in the abusive and brutal fishing industry.
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Two Burmese migrants are lost at sea after attempting to escape from a fishing boat off the coast of Thailand. A third escapee made it to shore alive and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he reported the incident to local police.
In its annual human rights report, the US State Department identified political prisoners, humanitarian access, and combatting corruption as areas where improvements had been made under the Thein Sein government.
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The US embassy in Rangoon held talks with Burmese Muslim and Arakanese community leaders to talk about the riots that erupted last week in western Burma’s Arakan state
