ast updated on 18 December 2008

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@2196 Trafficking in persons

Albania
current situation: Albania is a source country for women and
girls trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation
and forced labor; it is no longer considered a major country of
transit; Albanian victims are trafficked to Greece, Italy,
Macedonia, and Kosovo, with many trafficked onward to Western
European countries; children were also trafficked to Greece for
begging and other forms of child labor; approximately half of all
Albanian trafficking victims are under age 18; internal sex
trafficking of women and children is on the rise
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Albania is on the Tier 2 Watch List
for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat
trafficking in persons in 2007, particularly in the area of victim
protection; the government did not appropriately identify
trafficking victims during 2007, and has not demonstrated that it is
vigorously investigating or prosecuting complicit officials (2008)

Algeria
current situation: Algeria is a transit country for men and
women trafficked from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe for the purposes
of commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude;
Algerian children are trafficked internally for the purpose of
domestic servitude or street vending
tier rating: Tier 3 - Algeria did not report any serious law
enforcement actions to punish traffickers who force women into
commercial sexual exploitation or men into involuntary servitude in
2007; the government again reported no investigations of trafficking
of children for domestic servitude or improvements in protection
services available to victims of trafficking; Algeria still lacks
victim protection services, and its failure to distinguish between
trafficking and illegal migration may result in the punishment of
victims of trafficking (2008)

Argentina
current situation: Argentina is a source, transit, and
destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the
purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; most
victims are trafficked within the country, from rural to urban
areas; child sex tourism is a problem; foreign women and children,
primarily from Paraguay, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic, are
trafficked to Argentina for