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trafficking cases? What sentences have 

courts imposed upon traffickers? How 

common are suspended sentences and 

prison time of less than one year for 

convicted traffickers? 

8. Please provide observations 

regarding the efforts of police and 

prosecutors to pursue trafficking cases. 

9. Are government officials (including 

law enforcement) complicit in human 

trafficking by, for example, profiting 

from, taking bribes or receiving sexual 

services for allowing it to continue? Are 

government officials operating 

trafficking rings or activities? If so, have 

these government officials been subject 

to an investigation and/or prosecution? 

What punishments have been imposed? 

10. Has the government vigorously 

investigated, prosecuted, convicted and 

sentenced nationals of the country 

deployed abroad as part of a 

peacekeeping or other similar mission 

who engage in or facilitate trafficking? 

11. Has the government investigated, 

prosecuted, convicted and sentenced 

organized crime groups that are 

involved in trafficking? 

12. Is the country a source of sex 

tourists and, if so, what are their 

destination countries? Is the country a 

destination for sex tourists and, if so, 

what are their source countries? 

13. Please provide observations 

regarding government efforts to address 

the issue of unlawful child soldiering. 

14. Does the government make a 

coordinated, proactive effort to identify 

victims? Is there any screening 

conducted before deportation to 

determine whether individuals were 

trafficked? 

15. What victim services are provided 

(legal, medical, food, shelter, 

interpretation, mental health care, 

health care, repatriation)? Who provides 

these services? If nongovernment 

organizations provide the services, does 

the government support their work 

either financially or otherwise? 

16. How could victim services be 

improved? 

17. Are services provided equally and 

adequately to victims of labor and sex 

trafficking? Men, women and children? 

Citizen and noncitizen? 

18. Do service organizations and law 

enforcement work together 

cooperatively, for instance, to share 

information about trafficking trends or 

to plan for services after a raid? What is 

the level of cooperation, communication 

and trust between service organizations 

and law enforcement? 

19. May victims file civil suits or seek 

legal action against their trafficker? Do 

victims avail themselves of those 

remedies? 

20. Does the government repatriate 

victims? Does the government assist 

with third country resettlement? Does 

the government engage in any analysis 

of whether victims may face retribution 

or hardship upon repatriation to their 

country of origin? Are victims awaiting 

repatriation or third country 

resettlement offered services? Are 

victims indeed repatriated or are they 

deported? 

21. Does the government 

inappropriately detain or imprison 

identified trafficking victims? 

22. Does the government punish 

trafficking victims for forgery of 

documents, illegal immigration, 

unauthorized employment, or 

participation in illegal activities 

directed by the trafficker? 

23. What efforts has the government 

made to prevent human trafficking? 

24. Are there efforts to address root 

causes of trafficking such as poverty; 

lack of access to education and 

economic opportunity; and 

discrimination against women, children 

and minorities? 

25. Does the government undertake 

activities that could prevent or reduce 

vulnerability to trafficking, such as 

registering births of indigenous 

populations? 

26. Does the government provide 

financial support to NGOs working to 

promote public awareness or does the 

government implement such campaigns 

itself? Have public awareness 

campaigns proven to be effective? 

27. Please provide additional 

recommendations to improve the 

government’s anti-trafficking efforts. 

28. Please highlight effective 

strategies and practices that other 

governments could consider adopting. 

Dated: January 6, 2011. 

Luis CdeBaca, 

Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and 

Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. 

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