Global Issues
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