Men from Thailand trafficked into forced labour.

In 2003 Thailand passed a law against the trafficking of women and children, but now more stories about the trafficking of men from the country are emerging. The National Human Rights Commission has reported that in July 2003 six fishing trawlers sailed with a crew of 100 from Tha Chalom in Samut Sakhon province to fish in the waters around Indonesia. None of the crew was allowed home for more than three years. Thirty-eight of the crew died on the job. In response to this kind of exploitation a new memorandum of understanding on Common Guidelines for Concerned Agencies Engaged in Human Trafficking and the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Bill has been produced which would protect, it is hoped, even migrant Burmese, Mon and Karen workers like the men who were trafficked into forced labour. To read more about this and related subjects, please go to;
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