Malaysia sets sights on Tier 1 in US trafficking report


KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia aims to attain Tier 1 status on the United States’ State Department Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report next year, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

The Home Minister said Malaysia was presently placed in Tier 2 and that the government, through the Council for Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants (Mapo), was working hard on efforts to curb human trafficking and forced labour, to improve its position.

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