nd women are also trafficked within
the country
tier rating: Tier 3 - Uzbekistan is placed on Tier 3 because it
failed to fulfill commitments by the country to take additional
steps during 2005, including the adoption of comprehensive
anti-trafficking legislation, criminal code amendments to raise
trafficking penalties, support to the country's first trafficking
shelter, and approval of a national action plan

Venezuela
current situation: Venezuela is a source, transit, and
destination country for women and children trafficked for the
purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor; women and children
from Colombia, China, Peru, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic are
trafficked to and through Venezuela and subjected to commercial
sexual exploitation or forced labor; Venezuelans are trafficked
internally and to Western Europe, particularly Spain and the
Netherlands, and to countries in the Caribbean region for commercial
sexual exploitation; Venezuela is a transit country for illegal
migrants from other countries in the region and for Asian nationals,
some are believed to be trafficking victims
tier rating: Tier 3 - Venezuela does not fully comply with the
minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not
making significant efforts to do so

World
current situation: about 600,000 to 800,000 people, mostly
women and children, are trafficked annually across national borders,
not including millions trafficked within their own countries; at
least 80% of the victims are female; 75% of all victims are
trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation; roughly two-thirds
of the global victims are trafficked intra-regionally within East
Asia and the Pacific (260,000 to 280,000 people) and Europe and
Eurasia (170,000 to 210,000 people)

Zimbabwe
current situation: Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and
destination country for women and children trafficked for forced
labor and sexual exploitation; children may be trafficked internally
for forced agricultural labor, domestic servitude, and sexual
exploitation; women and girls are lured out of the country to South
Africa, China, Egypt, and Zambia with false job or scholarship
promises that result in domestic servitude or commercial sexual
exploitation; there are reports of South African employers demanding
sex from undocumented Zimbabwean workers under threat of
deportation; women and chil