State Department included Azerbaijan in the “Tier 2 watch list” category in its Trafficking in Persons Report 2011.

“Azerbaijan is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor, and women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Men and boys from Azerbaijan are subjected to conditions of forced labor in Russia and Moldova. Women and children from Azerbaijan are subjected to sex trafficking in the UAE, Turkey, Russia, and Iran,” the report reads.

Tier 2 watch list category, including also Turkey, refers to the countries where the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant and there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year.

According to the report, Armenia is among the states whose governments do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.

Georgia is assessed as a country whose government fully complies with TVPA’s minimum standards