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U.S. aid for India

By Sridhar Krishnaswami

WASHINGTON, JULY 17. Eight countries, including India, have been selected to receive $50 million in strategic `anti-trafficking in persons assistance', the Bush administration has announced. Brazil, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Sierra Leone and Tanzania are the others. The State Department will be funding and coordinating this initiative and some money is already being distributed to fund projects.

"These countries face significant challenges with human trafficking and their governments have been receptive to anti-trafficking cooperation," the State Department spokesman, Richard Boucher, has said in a statement. He pointed out that in his address to the United Nations in September 2003, the United States President, George W. Bush, pledged $50 million in additional funding to support organisations that rescue women and children from bondage and give them shelter and medical treatment.

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