Public opinion sinks 'fishing-boat prison idea', AsiaOne Asia News

ASEAN's second-largest economy, and the third-largest exporter of seafood in the world, faces a labour shortage on its fishing boats.

The work is so dangerous and back-breaking, and its pay so low, that it is done mostly by migrant workers from Myanmar and Cambodia. Human trafficking is a problem in this industry.

The Ministry of Labour, under General Surasak Karnjanarat, hit upon a self-declared "creative" idea: Let prisoners work on fishing boats. Only those with less than one year of their sentences left were eligible, and they would have to give their consent to join the scheme.

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How to Spot a Trafficking Victim at an Airport

Sex trafficking is a big business in the U.S. How 

come more people don't notice it?

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Human trafficking and the "new slavery": Problems with definitions, enforcement, understanding Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center

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2014 In Human Trafficking | International Political Forum

The pressure of unprecedented globalisation has meant that human trafficking and modern day slavery are inescapable realities of our political system. From Pope Francis declaring human trafficking as a “crime against humanity” to forced labourin Thailand’s seafood industry, the issue of human trafficking has been contemplated in 2014 in a way that it has not been before. Contemplation, however, does not effectively tackle the unfavourable issue of human trafficking; neither does it halt thegrowing vulnerability of migrants in a period of brisk economic change. A new year entails a new direction, and a contemporary approach to a perennial issue.

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Activists, executives advise Thailand how to tackle trafficking | Reuters

"BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thailand must empower victims of trafficking and forced labor to complain and must crack down on corrupt officials if it wants to tackle its human trafficking problem, activists and food industry executives say."

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Dozens of Children Among 98 Rohingya Smuggling Victims Found in Thailand

BANGKOK — Dozens of children were among 98 suspected Rohingya trafficking victims from Burma discovered in pickup trucks in southern Thailand, police said on Monday, as more checkpoints were set up in the region to combat the trade.


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Thailand’s Sex Trafficking Figures Suspect? - Asia Sentinel

Few issues in Thailand are as emotive as sex trafficking, which activists say is a growing problem despite the millions of dollars spent on tackling it each year.

At least 80,000 women and girls are supposedly trafficked into Thailand’s sex industry annually, some claim, with children as young as eight locked up in brothels and forced to service up to 20 men a day. Poor hilltribe families in the north are said to frequently sell their daughters into the flesh trade, seeing this as “a quick way to obtain material goods that designate social status.”

The problem, however, is that the figures simply don’t add up, nor do the horrifying, heart-wrenching stories stand up to scrutiny. Critics say anti-trafficking activists often have a “white savior complex,” are self-serving, routinely inflate statistics, deliberately conflate the separate issues of trafficking and prostitution, and in general do far more harm than good.

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Burmese nunnery saves over 200 girls from sex slavery | National Monitor

Many of the events happening in Myanmar as of late have been tragic, to say the least. Despite new developments into the murders of at least 18 Myanmar nationals, and of the two Myanmar men found guilty in murdering a British official, there is actually a silver lining.

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