The US State Department recently added several Southeast Asian countries in its list of human trafficking watch list. The governments of these added countries are advised to boost their efforts when it comes to tracking down and punishing perpetrators.

Laos, Thailand and Vietnam are countries that have made plenty of effort over the past year to battle its human trafficking problem. However, according to the recent report of Trafficking in Persons of the US State Department, these efforts are not merely enough. The three countries still ended up in the second their of the watch list along with fellow Southeast Asian countries like the Philippines, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.

According to Phil Robertson of the Human Rights Watch, including these countries in the watch list is a good move to push their governments in the right direction. He expects that the governments will be consulting the report to discover problem areas that need to be addressed in order to remove their countries from the list.

According to ECPAT, a group of organizations that battle children human trafficking, even though many countries have made some progress in the area of human trafficking, there is still a long way to go.

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