Global Issues

Back to Map

Cuba

• Source country for adults and some children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking.

• Prostitution of children reportedly occurs.

• Prostitution not criminalized for anyone above 16 years old.

• Scope of trafficking difficult to gauge due to the closed nature of the government and sparse non-governmental or independent reporting.

 

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