This page shows a sample country narrative. The Prosecution, Protection, and Prevention sections of each country narrative describe how a government has or has not addressed the relevant TVPA minimum standards (see page 49), during the reporting period.
This truncated narrative gives a few examples.

COUNTRY X

PROTECTION

TVPA Minimum Standard 4(2) –
whether the government adequately protects victims of trafficking by identifying them and ensuring they have access to necessary

Country X is a transit and destination country for men and women subjected to forced labor and, to a much lesser extent, forced prostitution. Men and women from South and Southeast Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East voluntarily travel to Country X as laborers and domestic servants, but some subsequently face conditions indicative of involuntary servitude. These conditions include threats of serious harm, including threats of legal action and deportation; withholding of pay; restrictions on freedom of movement, including the confiscation of passports and travel documents and physical, mental, and sexual abuse. In some cases, arriving migrant workers have found that the terms of employment in Country X are wholly different from those they agreed to in their home countries. Individuals employed as domestic servants are particularly vulnerable to trafficking since they are not covered under the provisions oTfVthPeAlaMboirnliamwu. Cmountry X is also a destination for women who migrSatteananddabrdec4om(1e0i)n–volved in prostitution, but the extent to whichwthheetsheewrotmheengaorveesrunbmjecetnedt

Country X made minimal progress in protecting victims of trafficking
during the reporting period. Although health care facilities reportedly refer suspected abuse cases to the government anti-trafficking shelter for investigation,

t , such as foreign workers
awaiting deportation and women arrested for prostitution; as a result, victims may be punished and automatically deported without being identified as victims or offered protection.

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i The trafficking shelter assisted 24 individuals during the reporting period and provided them with a wide range of services, including full medical treatment and legal and job assistance.
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services.

Summary of the government’s efforts to ensure that trafficking victims are identified
and provided adequate

to forced prostitution is unknown.

shows evidence of overall increasing efforts. v

protection.

The Government of Country X does not fully comply with the
minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. Although the government has not yet enacted necessary anti-trafficking legislation, during the reporting period it reaffirmed its commitment to this goal over the next year.

Country X sometimes offers temporary relief from deportation so that victims can testify as witnesses against their employers. However, victims were generally not permitted to leave the country if there is a pending case.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COUNTRY X:

PREVENTION
  
TVPA Minimum Standard 4(3) – whether the government is making

Enact the draft comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation; significantly increase efforts to investigate and prosecute trafficking offenses, and convict and punish trafficking offendersT; VinPstAituMteinainmd ucmonsistently apply formal procedures to identify viScttiamnsdoafrdtrsaffi1c-k3in–g among
vulnerable groups, such as those arrwehsteetdhfeorr timhemgigroavteiornnvmioelantitons

Country X made modest progress in preventing trafficking inapdeersqounsate efforts to prevent human during the reporting period. While the government madtreafnfiocking, including measures apparent effort to amend provisions of Country X‘s sponsorshtoipensure its diplomats or
law to help prevent the forced labor of migrant workers, thpeeacekeepers assigned
government did start to enforce other parts of the law to tahebroad do not engage in

or prostitution; and collect, disaggregpartoeh, aibniatlsyzaellafnodrmdissseomf inate counter-trafficking law enforcemetnrtadffiactak. ing and prescribes
adequate criminal

benefit of migrant workers. One provision in the sponsorship law continues to require foreign workers to request exit permits from their sponsors in order to leave Country X. Although this may increase migrant workers’ vulnerability to forced labor, the

trafficking.

Summary of the

PROSECUTION

punishments.

law created a new process through which a laborer who was

government’s

The Government of Country X made minimal efforts to investigate and prosecute trafficking offenses during the reporting period.

not granted an exit permit due to a sponsor’s refusal or other circumstances can seek one by other means.

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efforts to prevent human trafficking.

     Two were reportedly deported, and two were reportedly convicted. The government did not confirm nor deny the existence of this case.
                             
The government has a national plan of action to address trafficking in persons, but did not publicly disseminate the plan or take steps to implement it during the reporting period.

     TVPA Minimum Standard 4(1) – whether the
government vigorously investigates and prosecutes trafficking offenses and convicts and punishes trafficking offenders and provides data on  these actions.

      TVPA Minimum Standard 4(7) – whether the government has made adequate efforts to address
the involvement in or facilitation of human trafficking by government employees.

TVPA Minimum Standard 4(11) – whether the government
has made efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts, and, if applicable,  participation
in international sex tourism by its nationals.

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COUNTRY NARRATIVES

Maisie, a survivor of sex trafficking, tells her story at a faith-based women’s shelter in the  United States.

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