TIER1

COUNTRIES WHOSE GOVERNMENTS fully meet the Trafficking Victims Protection Act's (TVPA) minimum standards.

TIER 2

Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA's minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bnng themselves into compliance with those standards.

TER 2 WATCH LIST

Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA's minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards AND:

• a) The absolute number of victims of severe forms of traffickingis very significant or is significantly increasing;

  b) There is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or

  c) The determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year.

TIER 3

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