"Senator Benjamin Cardin, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, plans to express his concern to the White House over the planned upgrade. 'It is essential that we maintain the integrity of the TIP ranking system, and the United States' extraordinary leadership on this issue,' his spokeswoman, Sue Walitsky, said in a statement."
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, from the Reuters report,
"Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro said, 'Our legitimacy and moral authority on the issue of human trafficking is being undermined in an effort to smooth the path for the TPP.'"
The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking is quoted in Reuters' Rights groups urge U.S. to reconsider Malaysia human-trafficking rating,
"Melysa Sperber, director of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking, a coalition of 14 U.S.-based human rights organizations, said a Malaysian upgrade would lack credibility, would undermine the State Department's anti-trafficking reports and would be 'purely political.'"
Human Rights Watch, also from the Reuters report,
"Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, said he 'would be shocked if Malaysia were upgraded.'
"'They have done very little to improve the protection from abuse that migrant workers face. They have done precious little, frankly, to merit an upgrade,' he said."
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