word | | Trafficking in persons |
| rating | Panama | current situation: tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - (2008) |
| rating | Papua New Guinea | current situation: tier rating: Tier 3 - (2008) |
| rating | Qatar | ... labor, withholding of pay, restrictions on movement, arbitrary detention, and physical, mental, and sexual abuse tier rating: Tier 3 - Qatar's rating was downgraded to Tier 3 in the 2007 report for ... |
| rating | Russia | ... industries; debt bondage is common among trafficking victims, and child sex tourism remains a concern tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Russia is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for a ... |
| rating | Saudi Arabia | ... street vendors; some Nigerian women were reportedly trafficked into Saudi Arabia for commercial sexual exploitation tier rating: Tier 3 - Saudi Arabia does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination ... |
| rating | South Africa | ... Asian and Eastern European women are trafficked to South Africa for debt-bonded sexual exploitation tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - South Africa is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for ... |
| rating | Sri Lanka | current situation: tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - (2008) |
| rating | Sudan | ... inter-tribal abductions of a different nature continue in Southern Sudan and warrant further investigation tier rating: Tier 3 - Sudan does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of ... |
| rating | Syria | ... their passports withheld; some displaced Iraqi women and children are reportedly forced into sexual exploitation tier rating: Tier 3 - Syria does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of ... |
| rating | Tajikistan | current situation: tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - (2008) |
| rating | Uzbekistan | ... to Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan; men and women are also trafficked within the country tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Uzbekistan is placed on Tier 3 because it failed to fulfill ... |
| rating | Venezuela | ... the region and for Asian nationals, some of whom are believed to be trafficking victims tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Venezuela does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the ... |
| rating | Zambia | current situation: tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - (2008) |
| rating | Zimbabwe | current situation: tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - (2008) |
| ratio | China | ... much greater; some experts believe that the serious and prolonged imbalance in the male-female birth ratio may now be contributing to Chinese and foreign girls and women being trafficked as potential ... |
| reasonable | China | ... China failed to show evidence of increasing efforts to address transnational trafficking; while the government provides reasonable protection to internal victims of trafficking, protection for Chinese and foreign victims of transnational trafficking ... |
| rebel | Sudan | ... as for commercial sexual exploitation in small brothels in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps; the terrorist rebel organization "Lord's Resistance Army" (LRA) continues to abduct and forcibly conscript small numbers of ... |
| recruit | Cyprus | ... the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic for the purpose of sexual exploitation; traffickers continued to fraudulently recruit victims for work as dancers in cabarets and nightclubs on short-term "artiste" visas, for ... |
| recruited | Kuwait | ... their freedom of movement; Kuwait is reportedly a transit point for South and East Asian workers recruited for low-skilled work in Iraq; some of these workers are deceived as to the ... |
| recruited | Qatar | ... common offense was forcing workers to accept worse contract terms than those under which they were recruited; other conditions include bonded labor, withholding of pay, restrictions on movement, arbitrary detention, and physical ... |
| recruited | Syria | ... and Africa for domestic servitude and from Eastern Europe and Iraq for sexual exploitation; women are recruited for work in Syria as domestic servants, but some face conditions of exploitation and involuntary ... |
| recruitment | Bahrain | ... or domestic servants, but may be subjected to conditions of involuntary servitude when faced with exorbitant recruitment and transportation fees, withholding of their passports, restrictions on their movement, non-payment of wages ... |