DPM: We aim to get into Tier 1


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PUTRAJAYA: A special court to handle human trafficking cases has been set up as part of the measures to get Malaysia into the top-ranked Tier 1 list of countries in the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TiP) annual report by 2020.

In a special interview with The Star, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said another step towards achieving this goal was having a representative of the Higher Education Ministry on the Anti-Human Trafficking and Anti-Migrant Smuggling Council (Mapo).

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