It describes Kenya as “a source, transit and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking.”
The new worldwide survey groups Kenya with several countries that the US says do not fully comply with minimum standards for eliminating trafficking but that are making significant efforts to do so.
Children are “exploited in prostitution throughout Kenya, including in the coastal sex-tourism industry,” the US State Department said on Friday in its latest global report on Trafficking in Persons.
Kenyans who migrate in search of employment in other East African countries as well as in Europe, the US and Middle East may be exploited in domestic servitude, massage parlours and brothels, the report states.
