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Trafficking in Persons Report   -Report Home Page
Released by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
June 5, 2006

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION

The 2006 Trafficking In Persons Report: Its Purpose

Focusing on Slave Labor and Sexual Slavery
Race to The Bottom: In Search of Exploitable Migrant Workers
Recruitment Fees and Debts For Migrant Workers: Precursors to Servitude

Labor Trafficking Through Legal Recruitment

Myth of Movement

The Human and Societal Costs of Trafficking
The Public Heath Impact of Sex Trafficking
Identifying Victims of Trafficking

The Methods of Traffickers
Caste and Slavery in South Asia

The Many Causes of Trafficking
Trafficking and Emerging Muslim Leadership
Unaccompanied Minors, Trafficking, and Exploitation
Department of Defense Responds to Labor Trafficking in Iraq
Working To End Demand For the Victims of Sex Trafficking

Effective Strategies In Combating Trafficking
Child Sex Tourism
"Trafficking In Persons" Defined

More About the 2006 TIP Report
Trafficking and Warfare: Child Soldiers in Burma

II. INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES

Global Law Enforcement Data
Child Domestic Servitude
The Policy of Victim Rescue

III. HEROES ACTING TO END MODERN-DAY SLAVERY

IV. TIER PLACEMENTS

V. MAPS (WITH REGIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT STATISTICS)

U.S. Government Domestic Anti-Trafficking Efforts

VI. COUNTRY NARRATIVES (A to Z)

VII. SPECIAL CASES

VIII. EFFORTS BY INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS

IX. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS–MATRIX

X. TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT

XI. GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS

This Report and subsequent updates are available at www.state.gov/g/tip

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