Officials encouraged victims to participate in the investigation and prosecution of traffickers and provided increased protective services to victim-witnesses. In 2019, 219 adult and child victims assisted law enforcement officials in ongoing investigations of an unknown number of trafficking cases. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)

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Prosecution cases and the number of prosecuted traffickers were higher in 2018 than in 2019. In 2019, 60% of the prosecuted traffickers were male. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)

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Most prosecutions were under the Anti-trafficking law although a few were under the Immigration Act of 2002; in 2019, 87% of prosecutions were done under the anti-trafficking law. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)

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In 2019, Sexual exploitation made up most of the convictions based on the ‘Solicitation of sex trafficking victims’ section of the ‘Anti-trafficking’ law, with 30% more convictions than Keeping a brothel and Solicitation. (United States of America Department of State, 2020)