| Date - Field | Bahrain - Trafficking in persons |
2008 January
Trafficking in persons | current situation: Bahrain is a destination country for men and women from South and Southeast Asia who migrate willingly to work as laborers 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, and physical or sexual abuse; women from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Morocco, and Thailand are also trafficked to Bahrain for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor
tier rating: Tier 3 - Bahrain made no discernable progress in preventing trafficking in 2006; the government failed to enact a comprehensive anti-trafficking law and did not report any prosecutions or convictions for trafficking offenses, despite reports of a substantial problem of involutary servitude and trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation |
2007 January
Trafficking in persons | current situation: Bahrain is a destination country for men and women from South and Southeast Asia who migrate willingly to work as laborers 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, and physical or sexual abuse; Eastern European women are also believed to be trafficked to Bahrain for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Bahrain's efforts to address trafficking in persons are based largely on pledges of future efforts; the government did not enact a comprehensive anti-trafficking law extending labor protection to domestic workers |
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) |
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