| Date - Field | Algeria - Trafficking in persons |
2008 January Trafficking in persons | current situation: Algeria is a transit and destination country for men, women, and children from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; many victims willingly migrate to Algeria en route to European countries with the help of smugglers, where they are often forced into prostitution, labor, and begging to pay off their smuggling debt; some Algerian children are reportedly trafficked within the country for domestic servitude tier rating: Tier 3 - Algeria does not adequately identify trafficking victims among illegal immigrants; the government did not take serious law enforcement actions to punish traffickers who force women into commercial sexual exploitation or men into involuntary servitude; the government reported no investigations of trafficking of children for domestic servitude or improvements in protection services for victims of trafficking |
2007 January Trafficking in persons | current situation: Algeria is a transit and destination country for men, women, and children from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; many victims willingly migrate to Algeria en route to European countries with the help of smugglers, where they are often forced into prostitution, labor, and begging to pay off their smuggling debt; armed militants reportedly traffic women for sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude, and children may be trafficked for forced labor as domestic servants or street vendors tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Algeria took no steps to assess the scope of trafficking in the country and reported no investigations or prosecutions for trafficking offenses this year |
2006 January Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2005 January Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2004 January Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2003 January Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2002 January Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2001 January Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2000 January Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |