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Malaysia is a destination, and to a lesser extent, a source and transit country for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically conditions of forced prostitution and for men, women, and children who are in conditions of forced labor.
The majority of trafficking victims are foreign workers who migrate willingly to Malaysia from Indonesia, Nepal, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Burma, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam in search of greater economic opportunities, some of whom subsequently encounter forced labor or debt bondage at the hands of their employers, employment agents, or informal labor recruiters.
While many of Malaysia’s trafficking offenders are individual business people, large organized crime syndicates are also behind some of the trafficking of foreigners in Malaysia.
A significant number of young women are recruited for work in Malaysian restaurants and hotels, some of whom migrate through the use of “Guest Relations Officer” visas, but subsequently are coerced into Malaysia’s commercial sex trade.
Such women from China are nicknamed "China Dolls".
Many Malaysian labor outsourcing companies apparently recruited excess workers, who were then often subject to conditions of forced labor.
Some Malaysian citizens are trafficked internally and abroad to Singapore, Hong Kong, France, and the United Kingdom for commercial sexual exploitation.
There were approximately two million documented migrant workers in Malaysia in 2009, and an additional estimated 1.9 million who were undocumented.
Many migrant workers in plantations, construction sites, textile factories, and employed as domestic workers throughout Malaysia experienced restrictions on movement, deceit and fraud in wages, passport confiscation, or debt bondage, which are practices indicative of trafficking.
Some Malaysian employers reportedly did not pay their foreign domestic workers three to six months’ wages in order to recoup recruitment agency charges, making them vulnerable to trafficking.
Refugees were particularly vulnerable to trafficking, and Malaysians from rural communities and indigenous groups were also vulnerable.
The People's Volunteer Corps (RELA) continued to conduct raids targeting illegal migrant communities and detained refugees, asylum seekers, and trafficking victims along with allegedly illegal migrants and foreign prostitute.
Some trafficking victims were locked up in warehouses or brothels.
The Indonesian and Malaysian governments have not amended or replaced a 2006 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) covering the employment of Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia, which authorizes Malaysian employers to confiscate and hold the passports of domestic employees.
The Government of Malaysia does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so.
Because the assessment that the government had made significant efforts is based in part on its commitments to undertake actions over the coming year – notably greater implementation of Malaysia’s anti-trafficking law against labor trafficking – Malaysia is placed on Tier 2 Watch List.
The Malaysian government has shown a greater commitment to address human trafficking that is expected to lead to: increased investigations and prosecutions of labor trafficking offenses and identification of labor trafficking victims; increasing efforts to prosecute trafficking-related corruption by government officials; and greater collaboration with NGOs and international organizations to improve victim services in government shelters.
During the reporting period, senior government officials, including the Prime Minister, publicly acknowledged Malaysia’s human trafficking problem, the government increased its investigations of trafficking cases and filed an increased number of criminal charges against traffickers, significantly expanded training of officials on the 2007 anti-trafficking law, conducted a public awareness campaign on human trafficking, opened three more shelters for trafficking victims, and launched a five-year national action plan on trafficking.
Nevertheless, these early efforts will require continued attention, as there are many serious concerns remaining regarding trafficking in Malaysia, including the detention of trafficking victims in government facilities. 
The Government of Malaysia made some progress in law enforcement efforts against sex trafficking during the reporting period, and limited progress in prosecuting and convicting offenders of labor trafficking.
Malaysian law prohibits all forms of human trafficking through its 2007 anti-trafficking law, which prescribes penalties that are commensurate with those of other serious offenses, such as rape.
During the reporting period, the government convicted three sex trafficking offenders and reported initiating 180 trafficking-related investigations and filing 123 charges against 69 individuals, though it is unclear how many of these cases were for actual trafficking.
In January 2010, authorities identified their first labor trafficking case in the fisheries industry when the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency intercepted Thai boats off the coast of and arrested five Thai traffickers; the case remains pending.
While reported several potential labor trafficking cases to the government, authorities did not report any related arrests or investigations.
Authorities initiated a review of the licenses of the 277 companies that are authorized to act as labor recruiters in Malaysia.
The government did not report any criminal prosecutions of employers who subjected workers to conditions of forced labor or labor recruiters who used deceptive practices and [debt bondage to compel migrant workers into involuntary servitude.
Despite a public statement by a senior official highlighting the right of workers to hold their own passports, the government continued to allow{fact|date=June 2012} for the confiscation of passports by employers of migrant workers, and did not prosecute any employers who confiscated passports or travel documents of migrant workers or confined them to the workplace.
In September 2009, the Home Minister announced that a new MOU being negotiated between Malaysia and Indonesia would not allow confiscation of passports of migrant workers, but the 2006 MOU authorizing such confiscation has not yet been amended or replaced.
Authorities did not take criminal action against Volunteer Corps (RELA) volunteers who physically threatened and abused migrant workers and extorted money from them, despite continued reports of these abuses.
In response to credible reports of government officials’ direct involvement in a human trafficking network along the Malaysia-Thailand border outlined in a Senate Relations Committee Report, five immigration officials were arrested for alleged involvement in a trafficking ring that took Burmese migrants to Thailand for sale to trafficking syndicates.
However, officials have only lodged criminal charges under the Anti-Trafficking Act against one of the officers and the case against him is still pending.
Some observers report that corruption plays a role in the trafficking of foreign migrant workers, particularly with regard to officials’ authorizing excess recruitment by Malaysian outsourcing companies, despite assurances from officials that practice had been reduced by regulations implemented in July 2009 that require outsourcing companies to demonstrate their need for each worker recruited.
Reports also indicate that collusion between police and trafficking offenders sometimes leads to offenders escaping arrest and punishment.
Nevertheless, there were no officials convicted of trafficking-related complicity during the reporting period. 
Florida Abolitionist is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization opposing human trafficking in Florida, United States.
The organization is based in Orlando.
The founder and president of the organization is Tomas Lares, who also founded Weekend of Prayer to End Slavery and Trafficking.
In 2012, Florida Abolitionist held a demonstration in Lake Eola Park to bring attention to human trafficking.
A former human trafficking victim named Octavia spoke at the demonstration, talking about how she had been prostituted as a child.
The organization is involved in various anti-trafficking activities involving consciousness raising, helping victims, outreach, advocacy, and prayer.
Florida Abolitionist partners with the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking.
Florida Abolitionist had a booth at the 2013 Florida Awareness Day. 
Uzbekistan reported that improved law enforcement efforts to combat trafficking were effective, however, many traffickers served no time in prison during the reporting period.
Uzbekistan’s current laws do not criminalize all forms of trafficking in persons.
Some articles of the government’s criminal code are used to prosecute sex trafficking cases and some labor trafficking cases, though current laws do not adequately criminalize all forms of forced labor.
Penalties prescribed under the trafficking-related statutes of the criminal code range from five to eight years, however, convicted persons who are given sentences of less than 10 years are often amnestied, and may not serve time in prison.
This practice is commensurate with punishments prescribed for others grave crimes, such as rape.
Also, first-time female traffickers are more likely to be amnestied than male traffickers due to Uzbek cultural beliefs.
Many trafficking offenders are therefore not adequately punished.
In 2007, the police reported 273 trafficking investigations involving 303 suspects, compared with 250 investigations involving 268 suspects reported in 2005, the most recent year available for trafficking data.
Authorities prosecuted and convicted 185 suspects for trafficking in 2007, compared to 148 convictions in 2005.
As of January 2008, at least 66 traffickers were serving sentences of six months’ to three years’ imprisonment.
There were 272 police officers dedicated to combat trafficking in persons, including 118 that worked exclusively on the issue.
Anti-trafficking training was added to the curriculum for young officers at the Ministry of Interior training academy in 2007.
There were unconfirmed reports of government officials, that were involved in trafficking-related bribery and fraud.
In March 2008, a member of the lower house of parliament resigned over sex trafficking allegations.
There was no government investigation into the allegations at the time of this report. 
Malaysia made some efforts to prevent trafficking in persons over the last year.
The government conducted numerous anti-trafficking training events for Malaysian police, immigration, prosecutors, labor department officials, and Women’s ministry officials, and began to partner with NGOs, international organizations, and foreign governments on such trainings.
In November 2009, the government launched an anti-trafficking public awareness campaign that included advertisements in print media, on the radio, and on television, including television appearances by senior government officials to discuss human trafficking.
In March 2010, the government launched a five-year action plan to combat trafficking.
The government began to use its “999” emergency number as a trafficking hotline where calls are routed to the Malaysian Police, though calls can only be taken in Malay and English.
The Women’s Ministry produced pamphlets to potential trafficking victims in nine languages, which the Immigration Department began to distribute.
The Indonesian and Malaysian governments have yet to amend or replace a 2006 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) covering the employment of Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia, which authorizes Malaysian employers to confiscate and hold the passports of domestic employees, though negotiations to do so continued through the reporting period.