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Trafficking in persons Brazil, in 2 editions.
The entry for Brazil published Trafficking in persons in 2 editions of 36, from 2006 to 2025. The text changed in 1 edition. Each is shown as published. Trafficking in persons in every entry.
- edition changed the text
- 1
- the first edition with it
- 2006
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Trafficking in persons” (2006 to 2025).
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2025 edition
Rewritten since 2006- current situation:
- Brazil is a source and destination country for women and girls trafficked for sexual exploitation within Brazil and to destinations in South America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Japan, the US, and the Middle East, and for men trafficked within the country for forced agricultural labor;
- child sex tourism is a problem within the country, particularly in the resort areas and coastal cities of Brazil's northeast;
- foreign victims from Bolivia, Peru, China, and Korea are trafficked to Brazil for labor exploitation in factories
- tier rating:
- Tier 2 Watch List - Brazil has failed to show evidence of increasing efforts to fight trafficking, specifically for its failure to apply effective criminal penalties against traffickers who exploit forced labor
current situation: Brazil is a source and destination country for women and girls trafficked for sexual exploitation within Brazil and to destinations in South America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Japan, the US, and the Middle East, and for men trafficked within the country for forced agricultural labor; child sex tourism is a problem within the country, particularly in the resort areas and coastal cities of Brazil's northeast; foreign victims from Bolivia, Peru, China, and Korea are trafficked to Brazil for labor exploitation in factories
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Brazil has failed to show evidence of increasing efforts to fight trafficking, specifically for its failure to apply effective criminal penalties against traffickers who exploit forced labor
The entry for Brazil did not include Trafficking in persons.
- tier rating:
- Tier 2 Watch List — Brazil did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to eliminate trafficking compared with the previous reporting period and was downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List;
- for more details, go to: https://www.state.gov/reports/2025-trafficking-in-persons-report/brazil/
Rewritten: too little of the 2006 text remains to mark the changes.
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List — Brazil did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to eliminate trafficking compared with the previous reporting period and was downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List; for more details, go to: https://www.state.gov/reports/2025-trafficking-in-persons-report/brazil/
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Central Intelligence Agency. “Brazil: Trafficking in persons.” The World Factbook, 2006–2025 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/brazil/trafficking-in-persons.