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School of Industrial & Labor Relations           Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
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New York, NY 10016                        Director, IWS News Bureau
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Press Release [3 June 2005]
2005 Report:
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/


2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/47255.pdf
[full-text, 258 pages]

[excerpt]
This Report is intended to raise global awareness and spur foreign governments to take effective actions to counter all forms of trafficking in persons — a form of modern day slavery. The Report has increasingly
focused the efforts of a growing community of nations to share information and to partner in new and important ways to fight human trafficking. A country that fails to take significant actions to bring itself into compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons receives a negative “Tier 3” assessment in this Report. Such an assessment could trigger the withholding of non-humanitarian, non-trade-related assistance from the United States to that country.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................5
The 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report: Its Purpose ......................................5
The Common Thread of Servitude ......................................................................9
“Trafficking in Persons” Defined.....................................................................10
The Human and Societal Costs of Trafficking..................................................12
The Human Rights Dimension .................................................................13
Promoting Social Breakdown...................................................................13
Fueling Organized Crime .........................................................................13
Depriving Countries of Human Capital and Inhibiting Development.......14
Public Health Costs.................................................................................14
Erosion of Government Authority .............................................................14
The Methods of Traffickers .............................................................................15
The Myriad Causes of Trafficking ....................................................................17
Effective Strategies in Combating Trafficking ................................................20
More About the 2005 TIP Report......................................................................25
What the Report Is and Is Not .................................................................25
The Special Watch List: Tier 2 Watch List ...............................................26
Why This Year’s Report Contains More Country Assessments..................28
How the Report Is Used ...........................................................................29
Methodology ............................................................................................29
Step One: Significant Number of Victims ................................................30
Step Two: Tier Placement.........................................................................30
Potential Penalties for Tier 3 Countries ...................................................31
II. INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES .........................................................................33
Heroes Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery ......................................................38
III. TIER PLACEMENTS ................................................................................................42
IV. MAPS (WITH REGIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT STATISTICS).......................................43
V. COUNTRY NARRATIVES (A to Z) .............................................................................51
VI. SPECIAL CASES...................................................................................................232
VII. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EFFORTS ...............................................................239
VIII. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS­MATRIX ..............................................................248
IX. TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT .............................................................252
X. GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS ...................................................................................254
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