Slavery Map

Africa		East Asia & Pacific		Europe
Near East		South & Central Asia		Western Hemisphere

The above maps with the associated prosecutions, convictions and victims identified over the recent years and the Tier Rankings can be viewed in more detail in the following extract (pdf 3.83MB) from the The 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, 10th Edition (pdf 21.7MB) published by the Department of State, United States of America. For the first time it also includes USA.

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Each year the United States Dept for Crime puts out a TIP or Trafficking in Humans Report.

It accumulates working evidence of the issue from each country in the world and rates the countries accordingly. This is where the ‘Tier’ system comes in:

TIER 1 = The Government of this nation fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is not doing enough yet to stop them being a source, transit or destination country for trafficked persons.

TIER 2 = The Government of this nation does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. To further its efforts against trafficking, the government should strengthen its legal and victim support frameworks by drafting and enacting comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation, increasing the capacity of law enforcement officials to recognize and respond to instances of trafficking, and increasing awareness of human trafficking at the provincial and community levels.

TIER 3 = The Government of this nation does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so. The government does not prohibit and punish all crimes of trafficking in persons. It does not draw a distinction between trafficking in persons and illegal immigration and, as such, has not developed policies and programs to address the specific needs of trafficking victims.

The government did not take serious law enforcement actions to punish traffickers who force women into commercial sexual exploitation or men into involuntary servitude in other sectors. Moreover, the government reported no investigations of trafficking of children for domestic servitude or improvements in protection services available to victims of trafficking.