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The 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report

Document number
1680
Date
2007
Title
The 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report
Author/publisher
The US Department of State, United States of America
Availability
LSI library
Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Protection, Prevention, Prosecution, Sexual exploitation, Forced labour, Identification, Reporting, Investigation, Criminal charges, Task forces, Data analysis, Data collection, Data exchange; Organized crime, Prosecution, Law Enforcement, Criminal justice, Judicial cooperation; Victim-centred approach, National anti-trafficking measures; Criminalisation, Punishment, Crime prevention;
Summary
The Department of State is required by law tosubmit a Report each year to the U.S. Congresson foreign governments’ efforts to eliminatesevere forms of trafficking in persons. This Reportis the seventh annual TIP Report. It is intendedto raise global awareness, to highlight efforts ofthe international community, and to encourageforeign governments to take effective actions tocounter all forms of trafficking in persons.The Report has increasingly focused the efforts of a growing community of nations on sharing information and partnering in new and important ways. A country that fails to make significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons, per U.S. law, receives a “Tier 3” assessment in this Report. Such an assessment could trigger the withholding of nonhumanitarian, non-trade-related assistance from the United States to that country. In assessing foreign governments’ efforts, the TIP Report highlights the “three P’s”— prosecution, protection, and prevention. But a victim-centered approach to trafficking requires us equally to address the “three R’s”— rescue, rehabilitation, and reintegration. The full TIP Report as well as its separate parts are available in PDF format at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/82902.pdf
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