The U.S. State Department marked 13 countries as the worst at protecting against human trafficking in its 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report, which it released on Monday.
“The 2024 Trafficking in Human Persons Report is a comprehensive, objective assessment of the state of anti-trafficking efforts across 188 countries and territories, including the United States,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a June 24 event unveiling the new report.
“For more than two decades, this report has documented emerging trends, highlighted areas of progress and setback, and identified effective initiatives combatting human trafficking.”
The State Department produces their human trafficking report each year to track global compliance with the counter-human trafficking standards set out in the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). The report scores countries by their adherence to these TVPA standards and efforts to improve compliance….