Talk:Human trafficking in Malaysia

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Currently the US State Department is considering elevating Malaysia's ranking ranking on slavery and human trafficking from 3 (the bottom tier) to 2 not because Malaysia has made any considerable increases in effort to curb its industry, but because the US White House's Trade Promotion Authority depends on the participants of the TPP (including Malaysia) having at least a tier-2 ranking, and by just changing Malaysia's ranking by policy, the TPP can be passed.

Is this current event relevant to the article?

Uriel-238 (talk) 09:47, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd definitely say so. Reading the July 2015 report, there's really no substantial efforts to stop trafficking other than a doubling in prosecutions, which could probably be a lot higher. According to a NY Times article, a Malaysian parliament member was even surprised that the U.S. was considering changing its tier. Some research should be done to see what usually consitutes a change in tier status for Malaysia (there's one in recent history) and other similar countries to see if the tier switch was arbitrary and meerely for the purpose of moving the TPP along or actually substantiated.

Also, the entire article is almost a direct quote out of the 2014 DoS Trafficking in Persons Report. It has the same introduction, page sections, and everything. Needs a bit of work.

67.241.170.63 (talk) 18:50, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]