Examples of anti-trafficking

• Many countries have little or no effective anti-trafficking legislation and no legislation to protect and to support the victims and families or to prosecute the perpetrators.

• Data collection is an important tool for monitoring country and regional trends and its analysis is often used to shape anti-trafficking policies.

• The government, however, remains unable to effectively implement all of the protection, prevention, and prosecution components of its anti-trafficking law given its lack of resources.

• The government continued to display anti-trafficking brochures and posters in multiple languages at border checkpoints, hospitals, and popular public gathering areas.

• It conducted anti-trafficking education campaigns and workshops to prevent trafficking during the reporting period.

• The government also has sponsored anti-trafficking workshops with participants from the region.

• To improve their capacity and technical skills, the government trained law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges on anti-trafficking investigation and prosecution techniques.

• The government did not formally monitor its anti-trafficking efforts and continued to lack an anti-trafficking national action plan.

• It did not develop an anti-trafficking national plan of action, and did not establish an anti-trafficking working group.

• The government did not conduct anti-trafficking information or education campaigns during the reporting period.

• The government sustained partnerships with neighboring foreign governments in pursuing joint anti-trafficking investigations.

• In addition, the government's anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts decreased during the reporting period.

• These new anti-trafficking provisions, however, do not address the trafficking of adult males or boys.

• The government allocated $91,000 for anti-trafficking efforts in 2007, an increase from $60,000 in 2006.

• Every law enforcement agency has anti-trafficking or child protection units.