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Human Trafficking

Countries whose governments fully meet the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA)
minimum standards.

Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant
efforts to meet those standards.

Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making
significant efforts to meet those standards and:

The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is
significantly increasing;
There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking
in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecutions, and convictions
of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in
severe forms of trafficking by government officials; or
The determination that a country is making significant efforts to meet the minimum standards was
based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year.

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Countries whose governments do not fully meet the minimum standards and are not making
significant efforts
to do so.