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Green Tier 1 (Full compliance with the minimum standards of the Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (TVPA))
yellow Tier 2 (Significant efforts to comply with TVPA)
red Tier 3 (No efforts to comply with TVPA)
grey No data
Prevention
The Philippine government demonstrated continued
efforts to raise awareness and prevent trafficking in
persons, mainly for migrant workers, during the reporting
period.
Prevention
The Philippine government demonstrated continued
efforts to raise awareness and prevent trafficking in
persons, mainly for migrant workers, during the reporting
period. In 2008, POEA conducted 1,250 pre-employment
orientation seminars for over 60,000 departing overseas
Filipino workers and trained approximately 130 local
government units on how to identify warning signs of
illegal recruitment and human trafficking, representing a
significant increase over the number of local government
units trained in 2007
Prevention
The Singaporean government demonstrated some
increased efforts to prevent trafficking in persons during
the year. The government expanded its information
campaign that aims to raise awareness among foreign
workers of their rights and resources available, in an
effort to prevent incidents of trafficking.
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Prevention
The Israeli government made efforts to prevent trafficking
in persons during the reporting period. The National
Coordinator for Anti-Trafficking Efforts provided lectures
on trafficking to army units, city and municipality
workers, students, and social workers. In addition, the
Authority for the Advancement of Women, the Ministry
of Education, the State Attorneys Office, and the Ministry
of Justices Legal Aid Branch sponsored anti-trafficking
seminars, conferences, and lectures throughout the
country
Prevention
The Thai government continued to support prevention
and public awareness activities on trafficking during
the year, including through public dialogues on
trafficking and television advertisements. Informed
observers report significant forced labor among migrants
who participate in Thailands temporary work program,
suggesting victims inability to seek assistance from the
government without fear of punishment or deportation
and a lack of efforts to inform migrant workers of options
for remedies against exploitative employers and labor
brokers.
Prevention
The Government of Japan continued to improve its
efforts to increase awareness of trafficking during the
reporting period. The government continued distribution
of approximately 30,000 posters and 50,000 leaflets to
local governments, embassies, airports, harbors, and
NGOs.
Prevention
Kuwait made minimal efforts to prevent trafficking in
persons this year. Throughout September 2008, the
Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs organized a series
of lectures in mosques throughout Kuwait in which
imams discussed the rights of domestic workers according
to Islam. In April 2008, Kuwait established a Human
Rights Commission, which meets once a month to discuss
such issues, though there has been no indication of
actions or decisions from these meetings
Prevention
Public awareness of human trafficking as a phenomenon
distinct from illegal immigration and smuggling is low
in Libya,
Prevention
The government periodically undertook awareness-raising
campaigns related to the abuse of children, child labor,
and sexual exploitation during the year. The 2006-
2015 National Plan for Action for Children includes the
goal of protecting children from abuse, violence, and
exploitation, in part by reducing the incidence of child
labor. Authorities did not make significant efforts to raise
public awareness of the commercial sexual exploitation of
children and women, especially in tourist areas, and did
not take any reported measures to reduce the demand for
commercial sex acts.
The government fully supported UN efforts to investigate
accusations that Moroccan peacekeepers in Côte
dIvoire sexually abused underage girls.
Prevention
Qatar made significant efforts to prevent trafficking in
persons during the reporting period. The government
continued to produce informational anti-trafficking
brochures in several targeted languages, posters, and
radio and TV commercials. In addition, a large outreach
program that enlisted the support of local imams began
in March 2009 with the aim of educating Qatari citizens
about the moral and legal implications of trafficking in
persons. During the year, senior Qatari officials made
public statements reflecting the governments recognition
that trafficking in persons is a serious problem in Qatar,
though the problem was characterized as a phenomenon
that originates in the country of origin rather than
Qatar itself.
Prevention
Saudi Arabia has not made significant efforts to prevent
trafficking in persons during the reporting period.
Although the Shura Council indicated its intent to discuss
a comprehensive anti-trafficking law in November 2008,
there has been no public discussion of the matter to
date. The government continues to produce brochures
about workers rights in Arabic, English, and some source
country languages, but the distribution of these materials
appears extremely limited. Officials tend to favor
employers particularly those who are well-connected
who claimed they were victims of nonperforming,
negligent migrant workers and accuse them of such
offenses as child abuse and witchcraft and even more
routinely of theft. No information was available from the
government about measures taken during the reporting
period to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts.
Similarly, there is no evidence that Saudi Arabia took
steps to reduce participation in child sex tourism by its
nationals abroad.
Protection
The government made no effort to protect or assist
victims during the reporting period. The Government
of Turkmenistan did not provide medical assistance,
counseling, shelter, legal assistance, or rehabilitative
services to victims of trafficking, nor did it supply
funding to international organizations or NGOs to
provide services to victims.