trafficking around the world

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According to the June 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report by the United States Department of State, countries are designated into four tiers based on the following:

TIER 1:

Countries whose governments fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards.

TIER 2:

Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.

TIER 2 WATCH LIST:

Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards AND:

a) The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing; or

b) There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or

c) The determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year.

TIER 3:

Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.

Click on a continent below to find country tier designations and anti-human trafficking efforts:

                               
                                                                                                                                                 
                               
                                                                            
   


Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report 2009