Category: Thailand

Thailand Secretly Supplies Myanmar Refugees to Trafficking Rings

January 5, 2014

By Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall on December 4, 2013— “One afternoon in October, in the watery no-man’s land between Thailand and Myanmar, Muhammad Ismail vanished. Thai immigration officials said he was being deported to Myanmar. In fact, they sold Ismail, 23, and hundreds of other Rohingya Muslims to human traffickers, who then spirited … More Thailand Secretly Supplies Myanmar Refugees to Trafficking Rings

Thailand Police Says, ‘Human Trafficking is the Biggest Problem We Have Now’

December 24, 2013

The urban poor are vulnerable to traffickers. Sam Sherratt under a Creative Commons Licence By Iris C. Gonzales on October 17, 2013— “Young girls go first, always the first to go, lost somewhere and never to be seen again. Their mothers and fathers are left wailing in the dead of night, calling out their children’s … More Thailand Police Says, ‘Human Trafficking is the Biggest Problem We Have Now’

THAILAND: Anti-Trafficking Measures Prove Controversial

November 1, 2013

By Ruxandra Guidi on October 21, 2013— “Twenty-eight-year-old Mai has been a sex worker in Chiang Mai for a decade now. Originally from Burma, she previously worked as a domestic helper, a dishwasher, and baker but says none of these jobs allowed her to make as much money as she does now. “There are good … More THAILAND: Anti-Trafficking Measures Prove Controversial

A Call for Thailand to Do More to End Human Trafficking

October 18, 2013

By Iris C. Gonzales for The New Internationalist Blog on Otober 17, 2013— The urban poor are vulnerable to traffickers. Sam Sherratt under a Creative Commons Licence “Young girls go first, always the first to go, lost somewhere and never to be seen again. Their mothers and fathers are left wailing in the dead of … More A Call for Thailand to Do More to End Human Trafficking