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Crime > Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:29:01 +0000

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.
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Number of countries: 61

Crime > Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:29:00 +0000

Crime > Illicit drugs

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:24:20 +0000

Definition: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Number of countries: 140

Crime > Kidnappings

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:27:42 +0000

Definition: Total recorded kidnappings. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
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)
Number of countries: 39

Crime > Females prosecuted

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:16:23 +0000

Definition: Total number of female prisoners. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
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)
Number of countries: 26

Crime > Unpaid diplomatic parking fines

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:08:28 +0000

Definition: Average Unpaid Annual New York City Parking Violations per Diplomat, 11/1997 to 11/2002.
Source: Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets
Ray Fisman Edward Miguel
Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006
Number of countries: 143

Crime > Total crimes

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:53:23 +0000

Definition: Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
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)
Number of countries: 50

Crime > Sentence Length

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:49:11 +0000

Definition: Total average sentence length served
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)
Number of countries: 21

Crime > Robberies

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:37:46 +0000

Definition: Total recorded robberies. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
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)
Number of countries: 47

Crime > Police

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:08:03 +0000

Definition: Total number of police
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)
Number of countries: 47