[EQ] Trafficking in Persons Report

Trafficking in Persons Report

US State Department, June 2008

Available online as PDF file [295p.] at: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/105501.pdf

Website: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/

 “…..The US Department of State is required by law to submit a Report each year to the U.S. Congress on foreign governments’ efforts to eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons. This Report is the eighth annual TIP Report. It is intended to raise global awareness, to highlight efforts of the international community, and to encourage foreign governments to take effective actions to counter all forms of trafficking in persons.

The U.S. law that guides anti-human trafficking efforts, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as amended (TVPA), states that the purpose of combating human trafficking is to punish traffickers, to protect victims, and to prevent trafficking from occurring. Freeing those trapped in slave-like conditions is the ultimate goal of this Report—and of the U.S. Government’s antihuman trafficking policy.

Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat. It deprives people of their human rights and freedoms, it increases global health risks, and it fuels the growth of organized crime.

Human trafficking has a devastating impact on individual victims, who often suffer physical and emotional abuse, rape, threats against self and family, and even death. But the impact of human trafficking goes beyond individual victims; it undermines the health, safety, and security of all nations it touches….”

 

Table of Contents

Introduction
The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report
Purpose
Human Trafficking Defined
The Scope and Nature of Modern-Day Slavery
Focus of the 2008 TIP Report
Methodology

Major Forms of Trafficking in Persons
Forced Labor
Bonded Labor
Debt Bondage and Involuntary Servitude Among Migrant Laborers
Involuntary Domestic Servitude
Forced Child Labor
Child Soldiers
Sex Trafficking and Prostitution
Children Exploited for Commercial Sex
Child Sex Tourism

Punishing Trafficking Offenders Adequately
Protecting Victims Adequately
Prevention: Spotlight on Addressing Demand
Importance of Research
Democracy and Human Trafficking

Topics of Special Interest
Highly Vulnerable: North Korean Refugees
Boy Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Women as Exploiters
Trafficking in Persons and New Technologies
Protecting Children From Child Sex Tourism
Trafficking of Migrant Workers
Street Children and Trafficking
Victim Trauma and Recovery
Worker Remittances: A Darker Side?
The Myth of the Bad “Runaway Worker”
Invisible People: Statelessness and Trafficking
Prostitution and Trafficking: Adjusting Policy to Reality
Custody of Child Trafficking Victims
Reports of Products Made with Forced Labor in the Last Year
Trafficking for Forced Begging
The Economics of Trafficking in Persons

Global Law Enforcement Data
Commendable Intiatives Around the World
2008 TIP Report Heroes
Tier Placements
U.S. Government Domestic Anti-Trafficking Efforts
Country Narratives
Special Cases

Relevant International Conventions
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
Stopping Human Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation, and Abuse by International Peacekeepers
Glossary of Acronyms
Human Trafficking Defined
A Closing Note From the Drafters of the Report

 

 

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