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The annual Trafficking in Persons report is a comprehensive resource of governmental anti-trafficking efforts. It represents an updated, global look at the nature and scope of trafficking in persons and the broad range of government actions to confront and eliminate it. The U.S. Government uses the TIP Report to engage foreign governments in dialogues to advance anti-trafficking reforms and to combat trafficking and to target resources on prevention, protection and prosecution programs.

This document introduces the fourteenth annual Trafficking in Persons Report (see links below). The report seeks to increase global awareness of the human trafficking phenomenon by shedding new light on various facets of the problem and highlighting shared and individual perspectives of the international community. This years Trafficking in Persons Report offers a roadmap for the road ahead as we confront the scourge of trafficking." -- John F. Kerry, Secretary of State

The TVPRA will offer increased support to the State Department's diplomatic engagement, bolster protections for vulnerable children and domestic workers, and enable effective partnerships to bring services to survivors and prosecute traffickers.

This report describes the incidence and background of human trafficking in India.

This is the ninth annual TIP Report; it seeks to increase global awareness of the human trafficking phenomenon by shedding new light on various facets of the problem and highlighting shared and individual efforts of the international community, and to encourage foreign governments to take effective action against all forms of trafficking in persons. The PDF is a large file, for a breakdown of sections, see: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2009/index.htm

This report highlights the efforts of the international community to combat human trafficking and encourages foreign governments to take action against all forms of human trafficking. Note: Updates to this report are available at www.state.gov/g/tip

Section 7202 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act established the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center to achieve greater integration and overall effectiveness in the U.S. government's enforcement and other response efforts, and to work with foreign governments to address the separate but related issues of alien smuggling, trafficking in persons, and criminal support of clandestine terrorist travel.

This is the second annual report to the U.S. Congress on the status of severe forms of trafficking in persons worldwide; it is required by the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. The report compiles 89 source, transit or destination countries where there was credible evidence of at least 100 trafficking victims; it ranks these countries into three tiers, according to their efforts to address human trafficking.