For a third consecutive year Guyana has been placed on the Tier 2 Watch List of the US State Department’s annual Trafficking in Person (TIP) report as the country is again deemed one that is a source and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labour.
According to the report, which was released yesterday, women and children from Guyana, Venezuela, Suriname, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic are subjected to sex trafficking in mining communities in the interior and in urban areas. It also added that victims are subjected to forced labour in the mining, agriculture,
