Botswana Applauded For Fighting Human Trafficking

Susan Coppedge, the Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State in the United States, has applauded Botswana for doing well in combating human trafficking.

“I have met with the government officials including prosecutors,” she said. “I realised that Botswana is doing very well in bringing offenders to book. It is also quicker than in the US to prosecute offenders.”

She said she was worried that in most cases people being trafficked and forced to do illegal things ended up being prosecuted.

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