Guinea-Bissau has recorded no child-trafficking prosecutions or convictions and puts no state money toward victims, a UN investigator found.

The UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Siobhán Mullally, reported (A/HRC/59/56/Add.1, dated April 28, 2025, after a November 2024 visit) that despite widespread reports of children trafficked for forced begging and street vending, including from some Qur'anic schools and across the border into Senegal, 'no prosecutions or convictions for child trafficking have been recorded.' She found investigations 'do not progress to prosecution due to corruption in law enforcement and in the administration of justice,' that there are no national services for trafficking victims and 'no State budget to finance any support or assistance for victims,' with what help exists provided by civil society on external aid, and that the Institute for Women and Children is severely under-resourced.