Oh Good, We Hate Traffic: Dominican Amendment Bans Human Trafficking

The Dominican Republic has added an amendment to its constitution that prohibits human trafficking in all its forms. Which is really such a step up from other countries’ proposed “Make Sex Trafficking Mandatory” amendments.

The amendment passed with 180 votes from the country’s 201-member constitutional reform assembly and is particularly noteworthy in the DR, as many Haitians are brought into the country illegally, often to work in manual labor on plantations, in construction, or within the tourism industry. The practice has gone on even though human trafficking has already been outlawed in the Dominican Republic. Additionally, an estimated 50,000 Dominicans are trafficked the world over, mostly as prostitutes.

This is nice and whatever, but we wish the Dominican Republic would stick with proposing and passing amendments that will win the approval of human rights organizations - like banning silly names.

Dominican amendment bans human trafficking [NY Daily News]