Near East - 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.

 

Bahrain

 

 

 

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.

 

Israel

Morocco

Qatar

Tunisia

Jordan

Oman

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

 

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.

 

Egypt

Iraq

Kuwait

Lebanon

 

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

 

Iran

Syria