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Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Releases 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report
The State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons has released the 2022 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, a comprehensive examination of how 188 countries and territories are preventing trafficking, protecting individuals impacted by trafficking, and prosecuting traffickers.
This year’s TIP Report expressly acknowledges the critical role of individuals with lived experience in developing effective anti-trafficking policies, procedures, and programs. Federal agencies and non-governmental organizations increasingly consult lived experience experts through advisory councils and training and technical assistance (T/TA) centres. Aligning with this sentiment, OTIP integrates survivor involvement throughout T/TA activities provided through its National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center (NHTTAC); in FY21, 51 individuals with lived experience partnered with NHTTAC as consultants. Through NHTTAC, OTIP also convenes the Human Trafficking Leadership Academy, cohorts of survivors leaders and allied professionals who develop recommendations for improving anti-trafficking programming.
Survivors of human trafficking know — through deeply painful experience — the tactics that traffickers use, the obstacles that survivors face as they get free, the support that can help the most as they work to rebuild their lives. So what the report emphasizes and what I want to emphasize today is that need for us to listen — listen to them, empower them, partner with them at every level of our work. — Secretary of State Antony Blinken Visit disclaimer page
The United States (U.S.) remained on Tier 1 in the 2022 TIP Report based on continued efforts to address human trafficking. The TIP Report notes the U.S. significantly increased service provision to individuals who have experienced trafficking and strengthened inter- and intra-agency coordination through the National Action Plan to Combat Trafficking Visit disclaimer page. However, the TIP Report highlighted areas of needed improvement, including a “continued lack of progress to comprehensively address labor trafficking” and how “survivors continued to be arrested for unlawful acts traffickers compelled them to commit.”
Read the full 2022 TIP Report (PDF) and watch the launch ceremony .
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