Liberia has been placed among 24 other countries on Tier 2 Watchlist of the US State Department’s 2025 Trafficking in Person Report for its delinquency in meeting the minimum standard of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000.
According to the US State Department report, Tier 2 Watchlist is made up of countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.
This, however, means that the estimated number of victims of severe forms of trafficking in Liberia is very significant or is significantly increasing and the country is not taking proportional concrete actions.
Also, it means that there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, including increased investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of trafficking crimes, increased assistance to victims, and decreasing evidence of complicity in severe forms of trafficking by government officials.
Countries on the US State Department Tier 2 Watch List are Algeria, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Fiji, Hong Kong, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Saint Lucia, Solomon Island, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Maldives, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Vanuatu and Zimbabwe.