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- Author: Donna M. Hughes
- Main Title: Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation , pp 55-57
- Publication Date: June 2002
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/8abf9b54-en
- Language: English
In its recent report on Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act 2000, Trafficking in Persons Report, the US Government classifies countries according to their efforts to combat “severe forms of trafficking in persons”. As of 2003, sanctions will be applied against countries which do not comply with minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and are not making significant efforts to do so. The “minimum standards” require that governments “prohibit severe forms of trafficking in persons and punish acts of such trafficking” for sex trafficking “prescribe punishment (for traffickers) commensurate with that for grave crimes, such as forcible sexual assault, and for trafficking “prescribe punishment that is sufficiently stringent to deter” traffickers.
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