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Trafficking in persons Kenya, in 5 editions.
The entry for Kenya published Trafficking in persons in 5 editions of 36, from 2006 to 2015. The text changed in 2 editions. Each is shown as published. Trafficking in persons in every entry.
- editions changed the text
- 2
- the first edition with it
- 2006
- the latest edition with it
- 2015
Published as “Trafficking in persons” (2006 to 2015).
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2015 edition
Changed since 2014The same text in 2006 and 2007.
- current situation:
- Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation;
- children are trafficked within the country for domestic servitude, street vending, agricultural labor, and sexual exploitation;
- men, women, and girls are trafficked to the Middle East, other African nations, Western Europe, and North America for domestic servitude, enslavement in massage parlors and brothels, and manual labor;
- Chinese women trafficked for sexual exploitation reportedly transit Nairobi and Bangladeshis may transit Kenya for forced labor in other countries
- tier rating:
- Tier 2 Watch List - Kenya is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List due to a lack of evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking
current situation: Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; children are trafficked within the country for domestic servitude, street vending, agricultural labor, and sexual exploitation; men, women, and girls are trafficked to the Middle East, other African nations, Western Europe, and North America for domestic servitude, enslavement in massage parlors and brothels, and manual labor; Chinese women trafficked for sexual exploitation reportedly transit Nairobi and Bangladeshis may transit Kenya for forced labor in other countries
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Kenya is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List due to a lack of evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking
The entry for Kenya did not include Trafficking in persons.
The same text in 2013 and 2014.
- current situation:
- Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for adults and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking;
- Kenyan children are forced to work in domestic service, agriculture, fishing, cattle herding, street vending, begging, and prostitution;
- Kenyan economic migrants to other East African countries, South Sudan, Europe, the US, and the Middle East are at times exploited in domestic servitude, massage parlors or brothels, or forced manual labor;
- children from Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda are subjected to forced labor and prostitution in Kenya;
- Somali refugees living in the Dadaab complex may be forced into prostitution or work on tobacco farms
- tier rating:
- Tier 2 Watch List - Kenya does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; the government enacted the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act in October 2012 but has not launched and implemented its national plan of action, convened the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Advisory Committee, taken tangible action against trafficking complicity among law enforcement officials, provided shelter and other protective services for adult victims, monitor the work of overseas labor recruitment agencies, or provide wide-scale anti-trafficking training to its officials; efforts to assist and care for child victims remain strong; corruption among officials continue to hamper efforts to bring traffickers to justice (2013)
Rewritten: too little of the 2007 text remains to mark the changes.
current situation:
Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for adults and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking; Kenyan children are forced to work in domestic service, agriculture, fishing, cattle herding, street vending, begging, and prostitution; Kenyan economic migrants to other East African countries, South Sudan, Europe, the US, and the Middle East are at times exploited in domestic servitude, massage parlors or brothels, or forced manual labor; children from Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda are subjected to forced labor and prostitution in Kenya; Somali refugees living in the Dadaab complex may be forced into prostitution or work on tobacco farms
tier rating:
Tier 2 Watch List - Kenya does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; the government enacted the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act in October 2012 but has not launched and implemented its national plan of action, convened the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Advisory Committee, taken tangible action against trafficking complicity among law enforcement officials, provided shelter and other protective services for adult victims, monitor the work of overseas labor recruitment agencies, or provide wide-scale anti-trafficking training to its officials; efforts to assist and care for child victims remain strong; corruption among officials continue to hamper efforts to bring traffickers to justice (2013)
- current situation:
- Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for adults and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking;
- Kenyan children are forced to work in domestic service, agriculture, fishing, cattle herding, street vending, begging, and prostitution;
- Kenyan economic migrants to other East African countries, South Sudan, Europe, the US, and the Middle East are at times exploited in domestic servitude, massage parlors or brothels, or forced manual labor;
- children from Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda are subjected to forced labor and prostitution in Kenya;
- children, often Somalis, living in the Dadaab refugee camp complex may be forced into prostitution or forced to work on tobacco farms
- tier rating:
- Tier 2 Watch List – Kenya does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking;
- however, it is making significant efforts to do so;
- the government has written but not implemented a plan to bring itself into compliance with the minimum standards for eliminating trafficking;
- corruption among officials and inadequate police training and resources continued to hamper efforts to bring traffickers to justice in 2013;
- efforts to assist and care for child trafficking victims remained strong, but relatively few services were provided to adults trafficked domestically or identified in situations of forced labor or prostitution abroad;
- the Department of Children’s Services and an NGO continued to operate a hotline for reporting child trafficking, labor, and abuse;
- almost 400 recruitment agencies were inspected in conjunction with the lifting of the ban on sending domestic workers to the Middle East in 2013 (2014)
current situation:Somali refugees children, often Somalis, living in the Dadaab refugee camp complex may be forced into prostitution or forced to work on tobacco farms
tier rating:- – Kenya does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so; the government enacted the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act in October 2012 but has written but not launched and implemented its national a plan of action, convened to bring itself into compliance with the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Advisory Committee, taken tangible action against trafficking complicity minimum standards for eliminating trafficking; corruption among law enforcement officials, provided shelter officials and other protective services for adult victims, monitor the work of overseas labor recruitment agencies, or provide wide-scale anti-trafficking inadequate police training and resources continued to its officials; hamper efforts to bring traffickers to justice in 2013; efforts to assist and care for child trafficking victims remain strong; corruption among officials continue remained strong, but relatively few services were provided to hamper efforts adults trafficked domestically or identified in situations of forced labor or prostitution abroad; the Department of Children’s Services and an NGO continued to bring traffickers operate a hotline for reporting child trafficking, labor, and abuse; almost 400 recruitment agencies were inspected in conjunction with the lifting of the ban on sending domestic workers to justice (2013) the Middle East in 2013 (2014)
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Central Intelligence Agency. “Kenya: Trafficking in persons.” The World Factbook, 2006–2015 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/kenya/trafficking-in-persons.