Global Issues

Latvia

• Riga a destination for adult sex tourism.

• Source country for women, men, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor. Latvian women are forced into prostitution in Italy, Spain, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, the Netherlands, and Germany.

• Reports that some Latvian teenage girls were subjected to sex trafficking within the country.

 

Sources: U.S. Department of State 2010 Human Rights Report; U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report 2011