Eurasia - Tier Placements

Adapted from U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2023

Tier 1 - Countries whose governments fully meet the [Trafficking Victims Protection Act] TVPA’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.

Austria	Estonia	Iceland	Sweden
Belgium	Germany	Lithuania	United Kingdom - UK
Czech Republic	Finland	Luxembourg
Cyprus	France	Netherlands
Denmark	Georgia	Spain

Tier 2 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.

Albania	Ireland	Moldova	Slovak Republic
Armenia	Italy	Montenegro	Slovenia
Azerbaijan	Kazakhstan	North Macedonia	Switzerland
Bosnia-Herzegovina	Kosovo	Norway	Tajikistan
Croatia	Kyrgyz Republic	Poland	Turkey
Greece	Latvia	Portugal	Ukraine
Hungary	Malta	Romania	Uzbekistan

Tier 2 Watch List - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards, and for which:

a) the estimated number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing and the country is not taking proportional concrete actions;

b) there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecution, and convictions of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials.

Bulgaria

Serbia

Tier 3 - Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.

Belarus	South Sudan	Turkmenistan	Venezuela
Russia	Syria