onal
trafficking; children are trafficked to work as domestic servants,
produce porters, roadside sellers, agricultural laborers, and for
sexual exploitation; Togolese women may be trafficked to Europe for
forced labor and sexual exploitation
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Togo is placed on the Tier 2 Watch
List for failure to show evidence of increased efforts to combat
trafficking over the past year, particularly in the areas of
prosecution and protection

United Arab Emirates
current situation: the United Arab Emirates is
a destination country for men, women, and children trafficked from
South and East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for
involuntary servitude and for sexual exploitation; an estimated
10,000 women from sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, South and East
Asia, Iraq, Iran, and Morocco may be victims of sex trafficking in
the UAE; women also migrate from Africa, and South and Southeast
Asia to work as domestic servants, but may have their passports
confiscated, be denied permission to leave the place of employment
in the home, or face sexual or physical abuse by their employers;
men from South Asia come to the UAE to work in the construction
industry, but may be subjected to conditions of involuntary
servitude as they are coerced to pay off recruitment and travel
costs, sometimes having their wages denied for months at a time;
victims of child camel jockey trafficking may still remain in the
UAE, despite a July 2005 law banning the practice; while all
identified victims were repatriated at the government's expense to
their home countries, questions persist as to the effectiveness of
the ban and the true number of victims
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - UAE is placed on the Tier 2 Watch
List for its failure to show increased efforts to combat trafficking
in 2005, particularly in its efforts to address the large-scale
trafficking of foreign girls and women for commercial sexual
exploitation

Uzbekistan
current situation: Uzbekistan is a source and, to a
lesser extent, a transit country for women trafficked to Asia and
the Middle East for the purpose of sexual exploitation; women from
other Central Asian countries and China are trafficked through
Uzbekistan; men are trafficked for purposes of forced labor in the
construction and agricultural industries to Ukraine, Russia,
Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan; men a