The United States recognizes two primary forms of trafficking in persons: forced labor and sex trafficking. This site focuses primarily on forced labor, a crime whereby traffickers exploit and profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them to perform labor. Several terms are used throughout RST such as trafficking in persons, human trafficking, and forced labor.
How a supply chain is set up and how workers are recruited, hired, and employed are factors of whether workers are better protected from or more exposed to risks.
Who the workers are, where they are from, their level of skill, their level of control over their lives, and pressures they are subject to are key to their degree of vulnerability to trafficking risks.
The demographics of the workforce, what jobs they are qualified for based on education and skill, how replaceable they are, and especially what pressures they are under to find and keep almost any job due to financial needs, translate to their vulnerability to being trafficked.
Identify Risks in Your Company’s Global Supply Chains
Select an Industry or Commodity in the dropdown menus to highlight the countries on the map where there are
documented child and/or forced labor risks. See our data sources. To read a country’s Trafficking Profile,
and to read about a selected Industry or Commodity, see the Profile tabs that populate below the map.
Selecting an Industry will narrow the list of Commodities by relevance. While the same Commodity may be
listed under more than one Industry, selecting a Commodity will show only one Industry Profile.
Industry
Commodities
Country
Documented risk of child labor*
Documented risk of forced labor*
Documented risk of child and forced labor*
There are no commodities associated with the selected industry. See the Sector Report, below.
