The United States chastised Algeria for failing to meet “minimum standards” for eliminating the practice of human trafficking and for not making credible attempts to do so, according to the U.S. State Department Report, “2023 Trafficking in Persons Report.”
The Algerian government does not fully meet the minimum requirements for human trafficking eradication and is not making substantial steps toward doing so, according to the 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report, which was released Thursday.
Algeria was demoted to Tier 3, the lowest level assigned by Washington. Tier 3 nations have governments that do not fully achieve the minimal requirements for abolishing human trafficking.
According to the study, the government undertook fewer investigations and convictions, and its efforts to identify and aid trafficking victims remained insufficient.
This was due to the government’s inefficient screening measures for victims within vulnerable populations, such as Sub-Saharan African migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers. With respect to individuals involved in the commercial sex, authorities overwhelmingly continued to counterintuitively penalize trafficking victims solely for immigration offenses committed as a direct result of being trafficked.
The Algerian government’s continuous efforts to deport illegal migrants–without appropriate screening procedures for signs of trafficking–have discouraged some victims within this demographic from reporting trafficking offenses to authorities and from seeking much-needed assistance, concluded the report.