Department of state placed singapore on a human trafficking tier 2 watch list. State departments office to monitor and combat trafficking in personsit ranks governments based on their perceived efforts to acknowledge and combat human trafficking.
Global Levels Of Human Trafficking
Human trafficking tier list. Tier 1 tier 2 tier 2 watch list tier 3 and special case. Tier 1 is the highest ranking indicating that a government has acknowledged the existence of human trafficking made efforts to address the problem and complies with the tvpas minimum standards. Tier 2 watch list. So how do we decide which countries are the most prone for human trafficking. There are five different tiers. Human trafficking is a multi billion dollar business and one of the fastest growing illegal industries on the planet.
A the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing. On july 30 of every year the world marks the world day against trafficking in persons to help raise awareness on this issuethe us department which investigates countries for its annual trafficking in person report has classified 46 countries as tier 3 from 2011 to 2018. The government lacks political will and capacity to fully address human trafficking as evidenced by ineffective law enforcement efforts official complicity penalization of victims and the continued conflation of. Tier 2 watch list pakistan does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Trafficking in persons report tier placements. The government partnered with an international organization to conduct a four day workshop on human trafficking and child labor attended by 17 government officials from the mol lis lnp ministry of gender children and social protection.
First the extent to which the country is a country of origin transit or destination for severe forms of trafficking. However it is making significant efforts to do so. The tvpa lists additional factors to determine whether a country should be on tier 2 or tier 2 watch list versus tier 3. Tier 2 watch list countries whose governments do not fully meet the tvpas minimum standards but are making significant efforts to meet those standards and. The tier system falls into 3 tiers tiers 1 2 3 and a tier 2 watch list. The trafficking in persons report or the tip report is an annual report issued by the us.
There are different levels or tiers that have been formed for the different countries in how they participate in working towards ending human trafficking. A category for countries that have a significant number of trafficking victims and which failed to show efforts to combat the situationwithin the same year the singapore government formed the inter agency taskforce on. Second the extent to which the countrys government does not meet the tvpas minimum standards and in particular the extent to which officials or. Timeline of key events. The trafficking in persons tip report published by the us. The 2020 trafficking in person report had placed nigeria on a tier two watch list meaning that nigeria failed to meet the minimum standards of compliance as regards human trafficking.