Dr. Sandie Morgan and Dave Stachowiak are once again joined by Chad Salitan to discuss this year's Trafficking in Persons Report. Chad is the Deputy Senior Coordinator at the Trafficking in Persons Office of the U.S. Department of State. Chad brings knowledge on not only what the TIP Report is, but key differences in the 2019's edition.
Key Points

Tier rankings are exclusively measuring government effort to combat human trafficking, starting at the highest with Tier 1 to the lowest at Tier 3.
There is movement every year between tiers, for 2019 specifically, there were 25 downgrades 24 upgrades. 
The Tier rankings are also a good resource for grant fundings and financial aid in order to help focus available resources to countries that have the highest needs.

Resources

2019 TIP Report

192 - What is the Trafficking in Persons Report

193 - Child Institutionalization and Human Trafficking

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Transcript
Dave [00:00:00] You're listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 206, Leveraging the Data in the Trafficking in Persons Report.

Production Credits [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave [00:00:30] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie [00:00:36] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave [00:00:38] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, one of the resources that has been just tremendous to all of us who want to study the issues, so we can really make a difference on this issue is the Trafficking in Persons Report that's released annually from the State Department. And we have talked about it a number of times on past episodes. And today we are pleased to welcome back to the show Chad, who's going to really assist us in really diving in and in more detail on the most recent report.

Sandie [00:01:14] Yes and I'm, so excited to have Chad Salitan. He's the Deputy Senior Coordinator, Trafficking in Persons office in Washington D.C. And when I started reading this year's report, I knew we had to bring him back. He was on a podcast in March in podcast number 192, What is the Trafficking in Persons Report. And we immediately followed that with podcast 193, Child Institutionalization and Human Trafficking. So, Chad, welcome back.

Chad [00:01:47] Thank you for having me.

Sandie [00:01:49] So, let's start off with what were your feelings about releasing this report? What was that one thing that you were the most excited about?

Chad [00:01:59] Oh, well this was report number nineteen for our office. So, we were very pleased to get this one out. Each year, it's frankly a Herculean effort to produce this report over 500 pages. As you may have noticed your arms got heavy if you were carrying it. Well, we were producing a really comprehensive report this year and we're really proud of our introduction, which covers the theme of encouraging governments to address all forms of human trafficking with a special emphasis on trafficking that takes place exclusively within the borders of the country. So, absent any transnational movement and it's sometimes an overlooked part of the global human trafficking sites, that's what we want to focus on this year.

Sandie [00:02:40] Well let's talk about that because sometimes when I'm traveling internationally, I have this conversation and people feel that I'm not talking about human trafficking, that I'm talking about something else. And, so for me anybody that has been obtained or recruited thr...