forced labor and sexual exploitation; many Zambian child
laborers, particularly those in the agriculture, domestic service,
and fishing sectors, are also victims of human trafficking; Zambian
women, lured by false employment or marriage offers abroad, are
trafficked to South Africa via Zimbabwe and to Europe via Malawi for
sexual exploitation; Zambia is a transit point for regional
trafficking of women and children, particularly from Angola to
Namibia and from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to South
Africa for agricultural labor
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Zambia is on the Tier 2 Watch List
for failing to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat
severe forms of trafficking, particularly in regard to its inability
to bring alleged traffickers to justice through prosecutions and
convictions; unlike 2006, there were no new prosecutions or
convictions of alleged traffickers in 2007; government efforts to
protect victims of trafficking remained extremely limited throughout
the year (2008)

Zimbabwe
current situation: Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and
destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the
purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; large scale
migration of Zimbabweans to surrounding countries - as they flee a
progressively more desperate situation at home - has increased;
rural Zimbabwean men, women, and children are trafficked internally
to farms for agricultural labor and domestic servitude and to cities
for domestic labor and commercial sexual exploitation; young men and
boys are trafficked to South Africa for farm work, often laboring
for months in South Africa without pay before "employers" have them
arrested and deported as illegal immigrants; young women and girls
are lured abroad with false employment offers that result in
involuntary domestic servitude or commercial sexual exploitation;
men, women, and children from neighboring states are trafficked
through Zimbabwe en route to South Africa
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Zimbabwe is on the Tier 2 Watch
List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to
combat severe forms of human trafficking, and because the absolute
number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is significantly
increasing; the trafficking situation in the country is worsening as
more of the population is made vulnerable by declining
socio-econom