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Uruguay

• Source and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor.

• Women, girls and boys trafficked within the country to border and tourist areas for commercial sexual exploitation.

• Some Uruguayan women migrated to Spain and Italy, and were subsequently forced into prostitution.

• Specific cases of Uruguayan children subjected to sex trafficking in Brazil in 2010.

 

Sources: U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report 2011