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MADAGASCAR (Tier 2 Watch List)

2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Madagascar

The Government of Madagascar does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. These efforts included investigating more trafficking cases; prosecuting more traffickers; providing the National Office to Combat Human Trafficking (BNLTEH) a portion of its allocated budget for the first time in three years; and making efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex, including child sex trafficking in the tourism sector. However, the government did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts compared with the previous reporting period. The government did not convict any traffickers for the third consecutive year. Serious and sustained concerns of official complicity in trafficking crimes remained, and the government did not hold any complicit officials accountable or investigate reports of officials perpetrating or facilitating trafficking crimes. The government identified fewer trafficking victims and provided fewer victims with services.

https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-trafficking-in-persons-report/madagascar/

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According to the most recent U.S. Department of State's 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report (released in 2025), Madagascar is classified as Tier 2. This means the government does not fully meet the minimum standards for eliminating trafficking but is making significant efforts and showed overall increasing progress compared to prior years (it was upgraded from Tier 2 Watch List in 2024).Key forms of trafficking in Madagascar include:

Sex trafficking — Particularly affecting women and children, including child sex trafficking in tourist areas (e.g., coastal cities like Nosy Be and Tamatave), urban centers, and increasingly online exploitation. Family members, tourist operators, hotels, and others often facilitate it.

Labor trafficking — Including forced domestic servitude (especially child domestic workers), forced labor in mining, fishing, agriculture, textiles, and other sectors. Children from rural and coastal areas are highly vulnerable.

Internal and international exploitation — Madagascar serves as both a source and destination country. Malagasy women and girls are trafficked abroad (e.g., to countries in the Middle East like Lebanon, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia for domestic servitude or exploitation). Domestically, economic disparities, poverty, corruption, and weak enforcement drive the problem.

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