Singapore disputes US human trafficking report (Straits Times, 30 July 2017)
Singapore has taken issue with an annual report by the US State Department for depicting an inaccurate and less positive picture of the human trafficking situation here. An inter-agency task force co-chaired by the Home Affairs and Manpower ministries said there were 17 sex and labour trafficking victims identified last year, lower than the 33 cited in the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The task force also disputed the number of trafficking suspects prosecuted and convicted.