Family Honour -- Trafficking in Persons

The death of a Muslim woman

BERLIN - In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying to break free and live Western lifestyles. Within their communities, the killers are revered as heroes for preserving their family dignity. [. . . . ]

Lengthy and informative -- download this PDF file.

34158US_Trafficking in Persons.pdf

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 11150
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS
Revised June 2004
Designed by the Bureau of Public Affairs

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................5
What is the Purpose of the 2004 Trafficking in Persons Report? ...................5
What is Trafficking?............................................................................................9
What is the Human and Societal Toll of Trafficking?.......................................10
Trafficking Is a Human Rights Violation and a Crime .............................10
Trafficking Promotes Social Breakdown...................................................12
Trafficking Fuels Organized Crime...........................................................14
Trafficking Deprives Countries of Human Capital ...................................14
Trafficking Undermines Public Health .....................................................15
Trafficking Subverts Government Authority .............................................16
Trafficking Imposes Enormous Economic Costs ......................................16
How do Traffickers Operate?............................................................................18
What are the Causes of Trafficking?................................................................19
What Strategies are Effective in the War Against Trafficking?.......................21
More About the 2004 TIP Report......................................................................25
What the Report Is and Is Not .................................................................25
What is Different in This Year’s Report ...................................................26
Why This Year’s Report Contains More Country Assessments..................27
How the Report is Used ...........................................................................29
Methodology ............................................................................................29
Step One: Significant Number of Victims ................................................30
Step Two: Tier Placement.........................................................................30
Penalties .................................................................................................31
II. INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES .........................................................................33
International Heroes.........................................................................................35
III. TIER PLACEMENTS ................................................................................................39
IV. COUNTRY NARRATIVES ..........................................................................................40
Africa.................................................................................................................41
East Asia and Pacific........................................................................................85
Europe and Eurasia.........................................................................................115
Near East.........................................................................................................189
South Asia .......................................................................................................207
Western Hemisphere ......................................................................................223
V. SPECIAL CASES...................................................................................................249
VI. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EFFORTS ...............................................................255
VII. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS–MATRIX ..............................................................262
VIII. TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT .............................................................266
IX. GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS ...................................................................................268

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