Trafficking in Persons Report

Ranking system

• Tier 1 countries whose governments fully comply with the TVPA's minimum standards.
• Tier 2 countries whose governments do not fully comply with an TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.
• Tier 2 watchlist 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:
• * The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing; or
• * There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or
• * 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.

Criticism

Hero Acting to End Modern Slavery Award