The Marshall Islands foreign minister has questioned a US government report which said the country wasn't doing enough to combat human trafficking.
The US State Department has demoted the Marshalls to its Tier 2 Watchlist, the last step before being blacklisted.
This is because the department said the government hadn't done enough to sort issues around a Majuro brothel that may have employed underage girls, which is an automatic trafficking offence.
There were also allegations of complicity involving senior government officials.
Our correspondent Giff Johnson spoke to Don Wiseman about the issues.
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