South Asia - Tier
Placements
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Adapted from U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2023 |
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Tier 1
- Countries whose governments fully meet the
[Trafficking Victims Protection Act] TVPA’s minimum standards for the
elimination of trafficking. |
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[Empty] |
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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. |
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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. |
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[Empty] |
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Tier 3
- Countries whose
governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards and are not making
significant efforts to do so. |