Trafficking in Persons
For gaining any illegal benefit for his/herself of another person with or without the consent of the women or child which is an offence under the penal code.
1. Women or Children who are procured ; traded ; bought ; sold from or sent to
wherever harbored / received , confined or hidden.
2. By means of deception , intimidation , violence, abuse of authority by payment or receive any benefits to deal from parents.
Target Groups
1. Women and Children who have problems in Thailand and other countries.
2. Women and Children who enter Thailand legally.
3. Women and Children who enter Thailand illegally.
4. Non-Thai women and children who live in Thailand.
Status of Thailand in Trafficking
Problems of Trafficking in Persons. The global community is well aware and agrees that trafficking in children and women is a serious violation of human rights. As one of the Greater Mekong sub-region countries, Thailand has been much offected by this problem and the adverse impacts have increasingly intensified when the country has been exploited as a lucrative source of trafficking in children and women by transnational organized crime.
Thailand, therefore finds itself in three positions:
1. First as a origin country where children and women are exported as
prostitutes to foreign countries.
2. Second as a destination country where those children and women are sent into the sex trade, forced labor and forced begging or are subjected to cruel treatment in the country.
3. Third as a transit country where children and women from other countries of the same region as well as outside of the region are imported and transit to other countries. (Australia, South Africa, Japan , Bahrain, Taiwan, Europe and North America)
Methods of Trafficking in Persons
1. Forced begging and unethical treatment.
2. Abusive employment, oppression or other forms of labor exploitation including
unfair wages , such as factories and restaurant, etc.
3. forced to sex commercial and looking for benefits to sexual by deceiving to get married with foreign man.
Protection of Victims
1. Operation with children and women to victims without discrimination.
2. No choosing to operation and human dignity concerned.
3. Standard of service and accords to problems and demands.