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Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
Trafficking in Persons Report 2012
Report

TIER 1

Countries whose governments fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards.

TIER 2

Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.

TIER 2 WATCH LIST

Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards AND:

a) 
The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing;

b) 
There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or

c) 
The determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country 
to take additional future steps over the next year.

TIER 3

Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.

TIER PLACEMENTS

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