The Government of Botswana demonstrated overall increasing efforts to combat human trafficking in 2018 compared to the other years. (United States of America Department of State, 2020) There was no new published report for the year 2020, therefore the latest recorded year data is 2018.
Botswana identified 127 trafficking victims from 2012 to 2018.
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Identified trafficked victims were highest in 2012 which was the first year of record, followed by 2016 with 27 cases with declining numbers since then. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)
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In the latest year of record, which is 2018, identified male victims were over twice the number of their female counterparts. However, the different genders were trafficked for different forms of exploitation, with men trafficked for labour while women for sexual exploitation. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)
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