Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Links on our - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons • Links on our Web site! • 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/ • How YOU can help Trafficking Victims: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/c16508.htm • Victim Stories: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/c16482.htm • Useful Government Web sites: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/c16480.htm

Labor trafficking victim Nour Miyati-

The Tiers • Tier 1: Countries whose governments fully comply with the Act’s minimum standards. • Tier 2: Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the Act’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards. • Tier 2 Special Watch List: Countries whose governments do not fully comply with the Act’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards, and: – The absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing; or – There is failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or – The determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring themselves 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 comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.

Hotline Numbers • Local Police: 911 • Health and Human Services (HHS): Office for Refugee and Resettlement has a toll-free Human Trafficking Referral Hotline. The toll-free number is 1-888-373-7888. • Department of Justice (DoJ): Office of Victims of Crime-to report suspected cases of trafficking or worker exploitation, call 1-888-428-7581 (voice and TTY). • Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Office of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) To report incidents of Child Sex Tourism involving American Citizens, call 1-866-DHS-2ICE.

Hotline Numbers • Local Police: 911 • Health and Human Services (HHS): Office for Refugee and Resettlement has a toll-free Human Trafficking Referral Hotline. The toll-free number is 1-888-373-7888. • Department of Justice (DoJ): Office of Victims of Crime-to report suspected cases of trafficking or worker exploitation, call 1-888-428-7581 (voice and TTY). • Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Office of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) To report incidents of Child Sex Tourism involving American Citizens, call 1-866-DHS-2ICE.