{"id":33203,"date":"2017-06-27T07:04:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T07:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=33203"},"modified":"2017-06-27T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T07:04:10","slug":"ivanka-trump-help-state-dept-unveil-human-trafficking-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/ivanka-trump-help-state-dept-unveil-human-trafficking-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Ivanka Trump to help State Dept. unveil human trafficking report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Ivanka Trump to help State Dept. unveil human trafficking report<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Ivanka Trump to help State Dept. unveil human trafficking report:- Ivanka Trump will join Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday to unveil the State Department\u2019s annual report on human trafficking, which is being released amid disputes over its listing of countries where child soldiers can be found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The congressionally mandated report has been used as a diplomatic tool since its inception in 2000. Reuters reported Saturday that Tillerson had overruled recommendations from State Department officials and decided to leave Iraq and Myanmar off the child soldiers list. Reuters said the secretary of state also declined a proposal to add Afghanistan to the list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A State Department official told POLITICO that there was \u201cconfusion and surprise\u201d within the agency about Tillerson\u2019s decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Ivanka Trump, who is serving as a White House adviser to her father, has touted the need to combat human trafficking. She will honor eight men and women from around the world who are seen as leaders in the effort to fight human trafficking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Tillerson drew criticism in March when he chose not to play a role in the release of the department\u2019s more prominent Human Rights Report. The release of that report is usually paired with a press event headlined by the secretary of state. Tillerson\u2019s absence fueled concerns that the Trump administration was not interested in promoting human rights as actively as prior administrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Human rights activists worry that the Trump administration will undermine the integrity of the human trafficking report, which has come under scrutiny in the past, with critics alleging political influence on the report&#8217;s findings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cOne of the reasons why we are concerned with politicizing the report is that the tool is only as good as the facts that make it up, that the country ranking is factually based,\u201d said David Abramowitz, managing director of Humanity United.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Abramowitz said how countries are ranked in the report will help shed light on how the Trump administration will tackle human rights issues, especially toward countries such as Russia and China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/06\/26\/ivanka-trump-tillerson-human-trafficking-239978<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/ivanka-trump-help-state-dept-unveil-human-trafficking-report.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivanka Trump to help State Dept. unveil human trafficking report Ivanka Trump to help State Dept. unveil human trafficking report:- Ivanka Trump will join Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday to unveil the State Department\u2019s annual report on human trafficking, which is being released amid disputes over its listing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[20469],"class_list":["post-33203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ivanka-trump-to-help-state-dept-unveil-human-trafficking-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}