Human trafficking in Tanzania

Tanzania ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in May 2006.^[1]

In 2008 the Government of Tanzania did not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it made significant efforts to do so.^[2]

In 2014, Tanzania was a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Boys were trafficked within the country for forced labor on farms, in mines, and in the informal business sector. Tanzanian girls from rural areas were trafficked to urban centers and the island of Zanzibar for domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation; some domestic workers fleeing abusive employers fall prey to forced prostitution. In some regions, unregistered employment agencies were involved in recruiting minors from rural areas to work as domestic helpers in the capital, where they are subject to exploitation. Tanzanian children and adults were reportedly trafficked to other countries including Mozambique, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy and China. Trafficked children from Burundi and Kenya, as well as adults from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Yemen, are trafficked for forced labor in Tanzania's mining, agricultural and domestic service sectors, and are sometimes also subjected to sex trafficking.^[3]

U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons placed the country in "Tier 2" in 2017^[4] and 2023 ^[5]