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  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Vanuatu

    Release: VANUATU (Tier 2 Watch List). The Government of Vanuatu does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included sentencing four traffickers to adequate prison terms, following their conviction in the previous reporting...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Laos

    Release: LAOS (Tier 2). The Government of Laos does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,...


  • Designation of Two DPRK Individuals Supporting the DPRK’s Unlawful Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missile Programs

    News Release: Today, the United States is designating two Beijing-based Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) nationals connected to the DPRK’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) procurement. The DPRK’s development of its missile programs directly threatens regional and international security, and the United States will continue to take action to curtail activities in support of those programs.


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Mozambique

    Release: MOZAMBIQUE (Tier 2 Watch List). The Government of Mozambique does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included increasing investigations and prosecutions, training law enforcement and front-line officials, publishing...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Liberia

    Release: LIBERIA (Tier 2). The Government of Liberia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Malawi

    Release: MALAWI (Tier 2). The Government of Malawi does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Chile

    Release: CHILE (Tier 1). The Government of Chile fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, if any, on its anti-trafficking capacity; therefore...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Suriname

    Release: SURINAME (Tier 2). The Government of Suriname does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Ethiopia

    Release: ETHIOPIA (Tier 2). The Government of Ethiopia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19...


  • Designation of Two DPRK Individuals Supporting the DPRK’s Unlawful Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missile Programs

    Release: Today, the United States is designating two Beijing-based Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) nationals connected to the DPRK’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) procurement. The DPRK’s development of its missile programs directly threatens regional and international security, and the United States will continue to take action to curtail activities in support of those programs.


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Bolivia

    Release: BOLIVIA (Tier 2 Watch List). The Government of Bolivia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included adopting a new NAP for the elimination of trafficking and reportedly sentencing three traffickers who...


  • Condemning Atrocities in Darfur

    Release: The United States condemns in the strongest terms the ongoing human rights violations and abuses and horrific violence in Sudan, especially reports of widespread sexual violence and killings based on ethnicity in West Darfur by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias. Local groups estimate...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: United Kingdom

    Release: UNITED KINGDOM (Tier 1). The Government of the United Kingdom (UK) fully meets the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The government continued to demonstrate serious and sustained efforts during the reporting period, even considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its anti-trafficking...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Burundi

    Release: BURUNDI (Tier 2). The Government of Burundi does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: The Gambia

    Release: THE GAMBIA (Tier 2). The Government of The Gambia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: North Korea

    Release: KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF (Tier 3).


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Central African Republic

    Release: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (Tier 2). The Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Korea, Republic of

    Release: KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (Tier 2). The Government of the Republic of Korea (ROK) does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Nigeria

    Release: NIGERIA (Tier 2). The Government of Nigeria does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the COVID-19...


  • 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Equatorial Guinea

    Release: EQUATORIAL GUINEA (Tier 3). The Government of Equatorial Guinea does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and, even considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, if any, on its anti-trafficking capacity, and is not making significant efforts to do so; therefore Equatorial...