crimes, such as rape. Latvia also uses non-trafficking-related laws to prosecute traffickers. Police performed 12 trafficking investigations under section...

Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. It ranks governments based on their perceived efforts to acknowledge and combat human trafficking. The map presents...

criminals involved in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking, or smuggling. According to the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, a third of...

expansion of the Latvian sex industry. Human trafficking in Latvia also takes the form of women trafficked to Western Europe. Nevertheless, Latvia did have a...

subjected to human trafficking, specifically forced prostitution and conditions of forced labor for men, women, and children. Female sex trafficking victims...

destination" for adult human trafficking, and that Estonia fails to comply with their minimum standards for eliminating trafficking. It now adds that the...

Human rights in Latvia are generally respected by the government, according to the US Department of State and Freedom House. Latvia is ranked above-average...

identified trafficking victims had gone up from 229 to 367 in three years, with a low number of prosecutions. Human trafficking is the trade of humans that...

top destinations for victims of human trafficking. The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings was adopted by the Council...

crimes. The government reported 219 human trafficking investigations in 2009, including at least 10 labor trafficking investigations. Authorities reportedly...