Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The failure of the White House to enforce threatened sanctions against countries that the State Department has accused of doing little to control human trafficking is "appalling," with the Obama administration — much like the George W. Bush administration before it — using "every loophole possible" to issue waivers to avoid punishing the offending nations by cutting U.S. aid, according to elected officials, human rights activists and others.
"It is shameful that a portion of federal funding continues to help support governments who are abusing children," Mr. Eaves said. "The worst part is that thousands of children around the world — not the politicians in the White House, on Capitol Hill or in the State Department — are the ones who will suffer."
