June 7, 2005

2005 Trafficking In Persons Report Adds Four Gulf States

By Tim | June 7, 2005 | Tags: General |

The U.S. Department of State’s 2005 ‘Trafficking In Persons’ (TIP) report adds four Gulf states to the ‘Tier 3’ list: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Tier 3 is comprised of states that do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and are not making significant steps to do so.

The TIP report used U.S. Government data to show that 600,000 to 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders each year. 80 percent of these victims are women and up to 50 percent are children.

Department of State—This Report is intended to raise global awareness and spur foreign governments to take effective actions to counter all forms of trafficking in persons — a form of modern-day slavery. The Report has increasingly focused the efforts of a growing community of nations to share information and to partner in new and important ways to fight human trafficking. …

What is particularly interesting about the report at this time is Venezuela’s Tier 3 classification. That’s interesting because of Natalee Holloway’s disappearance from Aruba. Venezuela is only 19 miles from Aruba and the report says that Venezuela is a “source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor.”

You can download the full report in pdf format by clicking here »

 

2 Comments

  • Tim says:
    June 9, 2005 at 11:56 am

    Thanks for pointing out the ambiguity in the statistics.

    What the TIP report was attempting to point out was that approximately 80 percent of trafficking victims are female and 20 percent are male, half of the victims are believed to be children.

    Hope this is clearer, thanks again.

    Tim

  • coon says:
    June 9, 2005 at 10:03 am

    80 percent + 50 percent = 130 percent

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