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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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29.02 %
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[10th of 38]
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Car thefts
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93,133 |
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[6th of 46]
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DEFINITION: Total recorded automobile thefts. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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16.09 %
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[16th of 39]
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DEFINITION: Corruption measures the share of senior managers who ranked corruption as a major or very severe constraint. |
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
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Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights
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20.83 %
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[14th of 39]
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DEFINITION: Lack confidence that courts uphold property rights is the share of senior managers who do not agree with the statement: I am confident that the judicial system will enforce my contractual and property rights in business disputes. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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8.79 %
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[15th of 39]
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DEFINITION: Courts measure the share of senior managers who ranked courts and dispute resolution systems as a major or very severe constraint. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Death penalty > Abolition date
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1,997 |
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[15th of 64]
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DEFINITION: Amnesty International |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Death penalty > Abolition for ordinary crimes
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1,995 |
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[1st of 20]
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DEFINITION: Amnesty International |
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SOURCE: Last updated: 01/04/03 |
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Death penalty > Last executed
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1,991 |
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[5th of 55]
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DEFINITION: Amnesty International |
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SOURCE: Last updated: 01/04/03 |
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Drug offences
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53,810 per 100,000 people |
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[4th of 46]
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DEFINITION: Drug offence cases per 100,000 population (2000). |
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SOURCE: Last updated: 01/04/03 |
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Frauds
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56,232 |
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[6th of 48]
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DEFINITION: Total recorded frauds. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. |
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
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Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms
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59.2028
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[2nd of 32]
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
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Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.
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74.5748
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[1st of 32]
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Gun violence
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Gun violence > Homicides > Non-firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.
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51.3901
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[2nd of 32]
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Gun violence
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Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.
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125.965
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[1st of 32]
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Gun violence
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Jails
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228 |
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[6th of 80]
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DEFINITION: Total number of adult prisons, penal or correctional institutions (excluding temporary jail lock-ups). Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Gun violence
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Judges and Magistrates
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1,982 |
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[10th of 35]
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DEFINITION: Number of Judges and Magistrates |
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
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Judges of the International Criminal Court > Chamber
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Appeal |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
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Judges of the International Criminal Court > Elected
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2003 |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Judges of the International Criminal Court
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Judges of the International Criminal Court > Name
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Navanethem Pillay |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Judges of the International Criminal Court
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Judges of the International Criminal Court > Term End
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2009 |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Judges of the International Criminal Court
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Manslaughters
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11,202 |
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[2nd of 42]
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DEFINITION: Total recorded non-intentional homicides. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Judges of the International Criminal Court
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Murders with firearms
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31,918 |
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[1st of 36]
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DEFINITION: Total recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. |
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
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Prisoners
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181,944 prisoners |
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[2nd of 168]
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DEFINITION: Total persons incarcerated |
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
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Prisoners > Female
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2.2% |
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[107th of 134]
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DEFINITION: Female prisoners, expressed as a percentage share of the total prison population. Data for 2003. |
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
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Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
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2.1% |
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[55th of 86]
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DEFINITION: Prisoners who are foreign nationals, expressed as a percentage share of total prison population. Data for 2003. |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Prisoners > Per capita
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402 per 100,000 people |
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[10th of 164]
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DEFINITION: Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held per 100,000 population. |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees
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28.3% |
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[80th of 143]
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DEFINITION: The percentage of the prison population that is being held pre-trial / on remand. Data for 2003. |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
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159.4% |
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[26th of 128]
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DEFINITION: The percentage of the offical prison capacity filled. This is obtained by comparing the number of prisoners in a nation to the offical capacity of the nation's prison system. Data for 2003. |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Sentence Length
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48.08 |
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[13th of 21]
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DEFINITION: Total average sentence length served |
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SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief |
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Software piracy rate
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34% |
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[89th of 107]
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DEFINITION: The piracy rate is the total number of units of pirated software deployed in 2007 divided by the total units of software installed. |
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
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Total crimes
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2,683,849 |
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[5th of 50]
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DEFINITION: Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. |
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SOURCE: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation South Africa is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; women and girls are trafficked internally - and occasionally to European and Asian countries - for sexual exploitation; women from other African countries are trafficked to South Africa and, less frequently, onward to Europe for sexual exploitation; men and boys are trafficked from neighboring countries for forced agricultural labor; Asian and Eastern European women are trafficked to South Africa for debt-bonded sexual exploitation |
DEFINITION: Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded, or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. The International Labor Organization (ILO), the UN agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues, estimates that 12.3 million people worldwide are enslaved in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, sexual servitude, and involuntary servitude at any given time. Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat, depriving people of their human rights and freedoms, risking global health, promoting social breakdown, inhibiting development by depriving countries of their human capital, and helping fuel the growth of organized crime. In 2000, the US Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), reauthorized in 2003 and 2005, which provides tools for the US to combat trafficking in persons, both domestically and abroad. One of the law's key components is the creation of the US Department of State's annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which assesses the government response in some 150 countries with a significant number of victims trafficked across their borders who are recruited, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Countries in the annual report are rated in three tiers, based on government efforts to combat trafficking. The countries identified in this entry are those listed in the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report as Tier 2 Watch List or Tier 3 based on the following definitions: Tier 2 Watch List countries do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but are making significant efforts to do so, and meet one of the following criteria: 1. they display a high or significantly increasing number victims, 2. they have failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, or, 3. they have committed to take action over the next year. Tier 3 countries neither satisfy the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking nor demonstrate a significant effort to do so. Countries in this tier are subject to potential non-humanitarian and non-trade sanctions. |
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SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002)
(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention) |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - South Africa is on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fourth consecutive year for its failure to show increasing efforts to address trafficking; the government provided inadequate data in 2007 on trafficking crimes investigated or prosecuted, or on resulting convictions or sentences; it also did not provide information on its efforts to protect victims of trafficking; the country continues to deport and/or prosecute suspected foreign victims without providing appropriate protective services |
DEFINITION: Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded, or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. The International Labor Organization (ILO), the UN agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues, estimates that 12.3 million people worldwide are enslaved in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, sexual servitude, and involuntary servitude at any given time. Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat, depriving people of their human rights and freedoms, risking global health, promoting social breakdown, inhibiting development by depriving countries of their human capital, and helping fuel the growth of organized crime. In 2000, the US Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), reauthorized in 2003 and 2005, which provides tools for the US to combat trafficking in persons, both domestically and abroad. One of the law's key components is the creation of the US Department of State's annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which assesses the government response in some 150 countries with a significant number of victims trafficked across their borders who are recruited, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Countries in the annual report are rated in three tiers, based on government efforts to combat trafficking. The countries identified in this entry are those listed in the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report as Tier 2 Watch List or Tier 3 based on the following definitions: Tier 2 Watch List countries do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but are making significant efforts to do so, and meet one of the following criteria: 1. they display a high or significantly increasing number victims, 2. they have failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, or, 3. they have committed to take action over the next year. Tier 3 countries neither satisfy the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking nor demonstrate a significant effort to do so. Countries in this tier are subject to potential non-humanitarian and non-trade sanctions. |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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United States extradition treaties > Date signed
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September 16, 1999 |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
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June 25, 2001 |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
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Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
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34 |
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[26th of 143]
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DEFINITION: Average Unpaid Annual New York City Parking Violations per Diplomat, 11/1997 to 11/2002. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
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