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State Dept. Study On Human Trafficking Comes In For Criticism

Published August 10, 2015 at 1:23 PM CDT

Lawmakers and human rights groups have criticized a 2015 State Department report on human trafficking, saying politics may have interfered with the evaluation of countries' human rights records. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Jason Szep of Reuters.

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