2013. The majority of identified victims, 205, was not referred and therefore did not receive services. In September 2014, the government opened two shelters dedicated to providing short- term accommodation, and medical, psychological, and educational services, to child trafficking victims; these shelters assisted 36 children.The government gave 3.45 million quetzales ($452,000) to one NGO that provided shelter and specialized services to 34 victims; it also provided funding to an NGO that served female victims of violence, including five trafficking victims. Another NGO provided services for 11 girls.There were few services in the country available for male victims; most boys and some girls were placed in a government shelter that housed child victims of abuse or neglect as well as child offenders. In 2014, 30 children were placed in this facility; there are reports that trafficking victims were not always separated from other residents, and local experts reported concerns with safety and quality of care in this shelter. There were no shelters for men.The sole facility available to women was a government shelter that restricted residents’ movements outside the shelter, effectively denying their ability to earn an income or participate in other outside activities while in the shelter. Sixteen women chose to reside in this shelter in 2014; those who did not were not eligible to receive the government’s psychological, social, or vocational services for trafficking victims.
NGO shelter operators expressed concern for victims’ safety upon being discharged from shelters.They cited insufficient ongoing case management and reintegration services in government shelters, leaving some victims vulnerable to re-trafficking or retaliation from traffickers—particularly those whose cases involved organized crime groups or public officials. NGOs provided the only services to fill this gap, at times sheltering victims on a long-term basis. Judges at times referred child victims to their families, leaving some vulnerable to re-trafficking, as family members were often complicit in their exploitation. Officials had difficulty recognizing domestic servitude or other types of forced labor not involving criminal networks as human trafficking; victims of these forms of trafficking were unlikely to be referred to protective services.
Authorities encouraged victims to assist with the investigation and prosecution of traffickers, and an unspecified number did so, with legal and psychological support from NGOs.Victims residing in government facilities did not receive adequate legal support or witness protection. Prosecutors cited the lack of appropriate protection options for adult victims as a significant impediment to pursuing prosecutions in cases involving adults. Victims had the right to file civil claims; legal teams in NGO shelters assisted at least 10 victims in obtaining restitution from criminal convictions. There were no reports identified victims were detained, fined, or otherwise penalized for unlawful acts committed as a direct result of being subjected to human trafficking. The government, however, did not recognize children forced to engage in criminal activity as trafficking victims; officials and NGOs acknowledged some of these victims may have been prosecuted or otherwise treated as criminals. Repatriated victims could be referred to services, though authorities typically did not screen for indicators of trafficking among the large numbers of Guatemalans returned from abroad, including unaccompanied migrant children. Guatemalan law provided legal alternatives to the removal of foreign victims who may face hardship or retribution upon return to their home countries, but all known foreign victims opted for repatriation.

PREVENTION
The government continued strong prevention efforts. SVET, which

reports directly to the vice president, continued to oversee the interagency anti-trafficking commission and coordinate government efforts against trafficking as well as gender-based violence. In October 2014, the government approved a new 10-year anti- trafficking public policy. The government established 13 additional regional interagency commissions against trafficking and sexual violence, bringing the total to 23. The government conducted numerous awareness campaigns that included information about trafficking and reached more than 127,000 members of the public; some officials expressed concern these were not effective in reaching the most vulnerable segments of the population, including indigenous communities.The government, in partnership with civil society, continued to recruit partners in the tourism industry to sign a code of conduct that encouraged signatories to report potential cases of child sex tourism to authorities, and it implemented an awareness campaign against child sex tourism. However, there were no reported prosecutions or convictions of child sex tourists or other individuals who purchased commercial sex from children. The government provided anti-trafficking training for its diplomatic personnel and for Guatemalan troops prior to their deployment abroad on international peacekeeping missions.The government took no discernible efforts to reduce the demand for forced labor.

GUINEA: Tier 2 Watch List       
Guinea is a source, transit, and—to a lesser extent—destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. The majority of trafficking victims are children, and trafficking is more prevalent among Guinean citizens than foreign migrants in Guinea. Girls are sometimes sent to intermediaries who subject them to domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation, while boys are forced to beg on the streets, work as street vendors or shoe shiners, or labor in gold and diamond mines. Some women, men, and children are subjected to forced labor in agriculture. For example, reports indicate children are sent to the coastal region of Boke for forced labor on farms or to Senegal for education in Koranic schools, some of which exploit students through forced begging. Some Guinean boys and girls are subjected to forced labor in gold mining in Senegal, Mali, and possibly other West African countries. Guinea is a transit point for West African children subjected to forced labor in gold mining throughout the region. A small number of girls from neighboring West African countries migrate to Guinea, where they are subjected to domestic servitude and to possible commercial sexual exploitation. Women and girls are subjected to domestic servitude and sex trafficking in various countries in West Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. During the reporting period, there were increased reports of girls and women exploited in sex trafficking in Europe. Boys are exploited in prostitution in the Netherlands.Thai, Chinese, and Vietnamese women are subjected to forced prostitution in Guinea.
The Government of Guinea does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. Despite these measures, the government did not demonstrate overall increasing anti-trafficking efforts compared to the previous reporting period; therefore, Guinea is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for a third consecutive year. Guinea was granted a waiver from an otherwise required downgrade to Tier 3 because its government has a written plan that, if implemented, would constitute making significant efforts