Hong Kong rejects US downgrade to lowest tier in human trafficking report
The United States has downgraded Hong Kong to the lowest tier in its annual human trafficking report, citing shortcomings in prosecutions and victim identification, an assessment the city’s government rejected as “entirely unfounded”. The US State Department’s 2026 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, released on Thursday, moved Hong Kong from the Tier 2 Watch List, where it had been listed for…
The United States has downgraded Hong Kong to Tier 3 in its annual human trafficking report, moving it from the Tier 2 Watch List where it had been for two years. This downgrade is based on shortcomings in prosecutions and victim identification, which the Hong Kong government rejects as "entirely unfounded". The city is now placed alongside mainland China and Macau among 20 jurisdictions in the lowest tier, which also includes North Korea, Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan.
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