Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The U.S. State Department's \"Trafficking in Persons Report, 2012\" and \"Trafficking in Persons Report, 2013\" raised Israel's rank to Tier 1 after having ranked Israel Tier 2 between 2007 to 2011. (A Tier 1 ranking is the highest rating given to a government that \"has acknowledged the existence of human trafficking, has made efforts to address the problem.\" The State Department reports: \"The Government of Israel continued to improve its strong protection of trafficking victims over the reporting period.\") The State of Israel ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children on 23 Jul 2008 .Human trafficking in Israel includes the trafficking of men and women into the country for forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Low-skilled workers from China, Romania, Africa, Turkey, Thailand, the Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India migrate voluntarily for contract labor in the construction, agriculture, and health care industries. Some, however, subsequently face conditions of forced labor, such as unlawful withholding of passports, restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical intimidation. Many labor recruitment agencies in source countries and in Israel require workers to pay recruitment fees ranging from $1,000 to $10,000—a practice that makes workers highly vulnerable to trafficking once in Israel, and in some cases, situations of debt bondage. Israel was also a destination country for women trafficked from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Belarus, China, South Korea and possibly the Philippines for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In 2008, NGO had noted an increase in the internal trafficking of Israeli women for commercial sexual exploitation, and reported new instances of trafficking of Israeli women abroad to Canada, Ireland, and England. African asylum seekers entering Israel illegally are also vulnerable to trafficking for forced labor or prostitution. Large numbers of Eritreans had been trafficked into Israel.In 2007, the government increased the number of convictions for sex trafficking offenses, and conducted a campaign to prevent forced labor. Israel also continues to provide victims of sex trafficking with shelter, legal aid and protection assistance. NGOs claim that \"the shelters are insufficient to treat the scale of trafficking victims who were not officially identified in Israel, particularly among migrants and asylum seekers arriving from the Sinai\". In 2012 it was reported that \"the number of women affected continues to decline since the passage and implementation of Israel’s 2006 anti-trafficking law.\"The construction of the 245 mile Israel–Egypt barrier in 2013, is credited with further eliminating human trafficking into Israel, by closing the primary route by which trafficking of people into Israel had occurred."@en }
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- Human_trafficking_in_Israel abstract "The U.S. State Department's \"Trafficking in Persons Report, 2012\" and \"Trafficking in Persons Report, 2013\" raised Israel's rank to Tier 1 after having ranked Israel Tier 2 between 2007 to 2011. (A Tier 1 ranking is the highest rating given to a government that \"has acknowledged the existence of human trafficking, has made efforts to address the problem.\" The State Department reports: \"The Government of Israel continued to improve its strong protection of trafficking victims over the reporting period.\") The State of Israel ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children on 23 Jul 2008 .Human trafficking in Israel includes the trafficking of men and women into the country for forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Low-skilled workers from China, Romania, Africa, Turkey, Thailand, the Philippines, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India migrate voluntarily for contract labor in the construction, agriculture, and health care industries. Some, however, subsequently face conditions of forced labor, such as unlawful withholding of passports, restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical intimidation. Many labor recruitment agencies in source countries and in Israel require workers to pay recruitment fees ranging from $1,000 to $10,000—a practice that makes workers highly vulnerable to trafficking once in Israel, and in some cases, situations of debt bondage. Israel was also a destination country for women trafficked from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Belarus, China, South Korea and possibly the Philippines for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In 2008, NGO had noted an increase in the internal trafficking of Israeli women for commercial sexual exploitation, and reported new instances of trafficking of Israeli women abroad to Canada, Ireland, and England. African asylum seekers entering Israel illegally are also vulnerable to trafficking for forced labor or prostitution. Large numbers of Eritreans had been trafficked into Israel.In 2007, the government increased the number of convictions for sex trafficking offenses, and conducted a campaign to prevent forced labor. Israel also continues to provide victims of sex trafficking with shelter, legal aid and protection assistance. NGOs claim that \"the shelters are insufficient to treat the scale of trafficking victims who were not officially identified in Israel, particularly among migrants and asylum seekers arriving from the Sinai\". In 2012 it was reported that \"the number of women affected continues to decline since the passage and implementation of Israel’s 2006 anti-trafficking law.\"The construction of the 245 mile Israel–Egypt barrier in 2013, is credited with further eliminating human trafficking into Israel, by closing the primary route by which trafficking of people into Israel had occurred.".