![]() ![]() ![]() Strengthen the role of government or NGO service providers when conducting victim interviews, formally identifying victims, and assessing victims’ needs.Provide all victims with the necessary long-term protection and reintegration assistance to safely transition to living outside shelters.Allow adult victims greater independence to make informed choices about their own security needs and do not impose restriction of movement on adult victims while in the government’s care.Amend the anti-trafficking law to prescribe penalties for sex trafficking that are commensurate with penalties for other grave crimes, including by removing sentencing provisions that allow fines in lieu of imprisonment and increasing the available maximum imprisonment term.Increase efforts to provide more victims, whether identified in Jamaica or repatriated from abroad, with comprehensive services, including legal, medical, psycho-social, shelter, case management, educational/vocational, and reintegration assistance, for the full length of any legal proceedings.PRIORITIZED RECOMMENDATIONS:Īdopt, fully implement, and train officials-including local police, Center for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) investigators, social workers, and justices of the peace-on government-wide SOPs to guide proactive identification of suspected trafficking victims and referral to services, including screening for indicators of trafficking among vulnerable groups. Although the government provided some training for law enforcement and criminal justice officials, these efforts were ad hoc, and the government did not provide consistent, standardized anti-trafficking training for officials. The government identified and assisted fewer victims, and it significantly reduced funding for trafficking victim protection services. However, the government did not meet the minimum standards in several key areas. These efforts included achieving a trafficking conviction that resulted in a significant prison term and restitution paid to the victim adopting a national referral mechanism (NRM) to standardize procedures for victim identification and referral to services across government entities and the public and publishing its second annual report on trafficking in persons in Jamaica. The government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period, considering the impact of the pandemic on its anti-trafficking capacity therefore Jamaica remained on Tier 2. The Government of Jamaica does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. ![]() Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.Bureau of International Organization Affairs.Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.Office of Management Strategy and Solutions.Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations. ![]()
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