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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	2.35 %		[15th of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	0.59 %		[23rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	28.38 %		[24th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	2.31 %		[5th of 39]
Prisoners	450 prisoners		[129th of 168]
Prisoners > Female	1.2%		[126th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	66.7%		[3rd of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	32 per 100,000 people		[150th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	18.5%		[109th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	65%		[118th of 128]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation The Gambia is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation; women and girls, and to a lesser extent boys, are trafficked for sexual exploitation - in particular to meet the demand for European sex tourism - and for domestic servitude; boys are trafficked within the country for forced begging and street vending; Gambian women and children may be trafficked to Europe through trafficking schemes disguised as migrant smuggling
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - for a second consecutive year, The Gambia is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to eliminate trafficking; The Gambia failed to report any trafficking arrests, prosecutions, or convictions in 2007, and the government demonstrated weak victim protection efforts during the reporting period
United States extradition treaties > Citation 47 Stat. 2122; TS 849; 12 Bevans 482; 163 LNTS 59.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	June 24, 1935
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	1.5		[111st of 143]

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