The US State Department has ranked every country in the world by how it adheres to anti-human trafficking laws. Click on each country below to see how it does
Mapped using Google Fusion Tables
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/jun/27/human-trafficking-state-department-country-ranks-map
Human trafficking: a child soldier in Sierra Leone in just one of the forms of enforced slavery around the world identified by the State Department
How bad is human trafficking around the world? The US State Department has published a detailed examination of the issue, ranking every major country across the globe.
For anyone who thought slavery vanished with William Wilberforce, the report is a rude awakening. It details thousands of cases around the world in 180 countries where:
people may be trafficking victims regardless of whether they were born into a state of servitude or were transported to the exploitative situation, whether they once consented to work for a trafficker, or whether they participated in a crime as a direct result of being trafficked. At the heart of this phenomenon are the myriad forms of enslavement – not the activities involved in international transportation
Human trafficking mapped by the US state department. Click image for the graphicThe major forms of human trafficking covered by the report include:
• Forced labour
• Sex trafficking
• Bonded labour - where a worker's debt is exploited. it doesn't have to be current, the report highlights South Asia where "it is estimated that there are millions of trafficking victims working to pay off their ancestors' debts"
• Forced child labour and sex trafficking
• Forced domestic servitude
• Child soldiers: the report says "many children are forcibly abducted to be used as combatants. Others are unlawfully made to work as porters, cooks, guards, servants, messengers, or spies. Young girls can be forced to marry or have sex with male combatants. Both male and female child soldiers are often sexually abused and are at high risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases"
• Sex trafficking
• Bonded labour - where a worker's debt is exploited. it doesn't have to be current, the report highlights South Asia where "it is estimated that there are millions of trafficking victims working to pay off their ancestors' debts"
• Forced child labour and sex trafficking
• Forced domestic servitude
• Child soldiers: the report says "many children are forcibly abducted to be used as combatants. Others are unlawfully made to work as porters, cooks, guards, servants, messengers, or spies. Young girls can be forced to marry or have sex with male combatants. Both male and female child soldiers are often sexually abused and are at high risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases"
Being a US based report, the country ranking is based on the US Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, which has allowed the State Department to rank each country according to whether it takes action to fight human trafficking.
The four categories are:
Tier 1: Countries which fully comply with the TVPA's minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking
Tier 2: Countries which do not fully comply with the TVPA's minimum standards but are making significant efforts
Tier 2 watch list: as Tier 2 but the number of victims is increasing, or the countries do not provide evidence of increased efforts to tackle the problem or the country if making efforts to improve
Tier 3: Countries which do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so
Special cases: the worst three countries - Somalia, Sierra Leone and Haiti, each of which has been subject to either extreme natural disaster or severe conflict.
Tier 2: Countries which do not fully comply with the TVPA's minimum standards but are making significant efforts
Tier 2 watch list: as Tier 2 but the number of victims is increasing, or the countries do not provide evidence of increased efforts to tackle the problem or the country if making efforts to improve
Tier 3: Countries which do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so
Special cases: the worst three countries - Somalia, Sierra Leone and Haiti, each of which has been subject to either extreme natural disaster or severe conflict.
You can read more on the minimum standards here. Obviously, as these are US laws, they do not apply across the world, so the department has identified data from each country in specific regions - and some 33,000 victims of trafficking in 2010.
We've extracted the key data from the report - and you can download it below. What can you do with it?
