The national rapporteur published two reports addressing human trafficking. The national anti-trafficking taskforce coordinated the government’s multiagency approach. Authorities drafted a national referral mechanism that have yet to be published and implemented.The government continued a national campaign to educate the public about all forms of trafficking and received 203 trafficking tips, compared with 245 in 2013. The labor inspectorate continued to distribute an information card in 14 languages to inform potential victims about labor rights and signs of trafficking. To address demand for commercial sex, the government continued a campaign to educate clients of women in prostitution about trafficking and encouraged them to report signs of exploitation to authorities through a national anonymous crime reporting hotline; the hotline received 117 calls in 2014.The government, in cooperation with NGOs, extended its campaign against child sex tourism aimed at screening potential foreign child sex tourists at airports. Authorities investigated six cases of child sex tourism, but did not prosecute or convict any sex tourists in 2014.The foreign ministry continued to conduct outreach to foreign diplomats’ domestic workers, without their employers present, on how to report cases of abuse.The government did not provide specific anti-trafficking training or guidance for its diplomatic personnel. The defense ministry established a protocol to prevent troops being deployed abroad on missions as international peacekeepers from engaging in trafficking.

BONAIRE, ST. EUSTATIUS, AND SABA (BES)
The BES islands are municipalities of the Netherlands and are a transit and destination area for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor. Women in prostitution in regulated and illegal commercial sex sectors and unaccompanied children are highly vulnerable to trafficking. Local authorities believe men and women also have been subjected to domestic servitude and forced labor in the agricultural and construction sectors. Some migrants in restaurants and local businesses may be vulnerable to debt bondage.
The criminal code prohibits both sex and labor trafficking under Article 286f, prescribing penalties ranging from six to 15 years’ imprisonment. No new trafficking investigations or prosecutions were initiated in 2014; police reported indicators of human trafficking in St. Eustatius but could not build a case.The prosecution of Bonaire’s first trafficking case, involving Colombian women in forced prostitution, was initiated in October 2012 and remained ongoing. Local governments on the BES islands ran multidisciplinary anti-trafficking teams, which cooperated with each other and with Dutch counterparts. The Dutch government worked with BES counterparts to improve victim care and to train counterparts. Authorities did not identify any new victims in 2014. On the European Union’s Anti-Human Trafficking Day, officials raised awareness about trafficking through messages in multiple languages on radio stations in the BES islands. There were no reported efforts to reduce demand for commercial sex acts or forced labor.

NEW ZEALAND:  Tier 1 
New Zealand is a destination country for foreign men and women subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking and a source country for children subjected to sex trafficking within the country. Foreign men and women from China, India, the Philippines, countries in the Pacific, South Africa, and the United Kingdom are vulnerable to

forced labor in New Zealand’s agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, construction, and hospitality sectors, or as domestic workers. Some foreign workers are charged excessive and escalating recruitment fees, experience unjustified salary deductions, non- or underpayment of wages, excessively long working hours, restrictions on their movement, and have their passports confiscated and contracts altered. Some migrant workers are forced to work in job conditions that are different from what they were promised during their recruitment, but do not file complaints due to fear of losing their temporary visas. Foreign men aboard foreign-flagged fishing vessels in New Zealand waters are subjected to forced labor. Foreign women from China, Hong Kong,Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam are at risk of coercive or forced prostitution. Some international students and temporary visa holders are vulnerable to forced labor or prostitution. A small number of Pacific Islands and New Zealand (often of Maori descent) girls and boys are at risk of sex trafficking in street prostitution, and some are victims of trafficking in gangs. Some children are recruited by other girls or compelled by family members, into prostitution.
The Government of New Zealand fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.The government initiated its first anti-trafficking prosecution under the Crime Act of 1961— involving labor exploitation of Indian students—and convicted two traffickers in two child sex trafficking cases. New Zealand’s Parliament passed a second reading of the Omnibus Crime Bill, which contains amendments that conform New Zealand law to the 2000 UN TIP Protocol. Parliament approved the Fisheries Foreign Charter Vessels Amendments, and the government implemented efforts to prevent trafficking onboard vessels in New Zealand waters. The government, however, did not adequately identify or certify any trafficking victims in vulnerable sectors or among vulnerable groups and continued to treat possible forced labor cases as labor violations.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NEW  ZEALAND:
Approve and enact the Omnibus Crime Bill to expand New Zealand’s current anti-trafficking legal framework; increase efforts to proactively identify victims through proactive screening of vulnerable populations, including women and children in prostitution, foreign workers, and illegal migrants; significantly increase efforts to investigate and prosecute trafficking offenses, especially offenses committed by recruitment agencies and employers who subject workers to debt bondage or involuntary servitude through deceptive recruitment, non- or underpayment of wages, and threats of deportation; update the national action plan to address current trafficking trends in the country by redefining “trafficking” to conform to international law and assigning responsible stakeholders and financial resources; assess the full extent of sex trafficking involving children and foreign women, and labor trafficking involving migrant workers; and continue anti-trafficking awareness campaigns to reduce demand of forced labor and sexual commercial exploitation, especially of children and foreign women.