| Date - Field | Mali - Trafficking in persons |
2012 January
Trafficking in persons | current situation: Mali is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking; within Mali, women and girls are forced into domestic servitude, agricultural labor, and support roles in gold mines, as well as subjected to sex trafficking; Malian boys are found in conditions of forced labor in agricultural settings, gold mines, and the informal commercial sector, as well as forced begging both within Mali and neighboring countries; boys from Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger, and other countries are forced into begging and exploited for labor; adult men and boys, primarily of Songhai ethnicity, are subjected to the longstanding practice of debt bondage in the salt mines of Taoudenni in northern Mali; some members of Mali's black Tamachek community are subjected to traditional slavery-related practices rooted in hereditary master-slave relationships, and this involuntary servitude reportedly has extended to their children
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - the government acknowledged that human trafficking is a problem in Mali, but it did not demonstrate significant efforts to prosecute and convict trafficking offenders; although the government identified at least 198 trafficking victims during the year - 152 of whom were Malian children in prostitution - it prosecuted only three trafficking cases and convicted two trafficking offenders (2011) |
2011 January
Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2010 January
Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2009 January
Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2008 January
Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
2007 January
Trafficking in persons | void - (all current Transnational Issues informations) |
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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