Thailand to submit TIP Report to EU this month

 

 

BANGKOK, 5 January 2018 (NNT) - The Ministry of Labor will submit a TIP Report on human trafficking and illegal labor to the EU this month. Adjustments made to the country's solutions to human trafficking and illegal labor are expected to improve its ranking in the EU's list. 

A subcommittee on solutions to human trafficking and illegal labor met on Thursday for the first time this year. The meeting agreed on the adjustments made to two operational plans to tackle human trafficking and illegal labor a focus on important isuses. These issues include the management of foreign laborers, human trafficking and relevant cases, international labor inspection as well as the protection and rehabilitation of human trafficking victims and illegal foreign laborers. 

The meeting also agreed to take the country's labor cooperation and talks to a bilateral level with the EU and pass laws on working in the fishery sector. Other issues discussed by the meeting include the enforcement of laws and measures in the fishery sector and the protection of vulnerable foreign laborers. 

Thailand will submit its TIP Report to the EU and the U.S. on 31 January and 31 March 208.

 

-- nnt 2018-01-05

Increasing the minimum wage, as is currently being considered, could exacerbate the problem of trafficking in persons (TIP).  One suggestion for alleviating the problem would be to have some amnesty for foreign workers such that their employers could not merely confiscate their passports and expect them to live in fear of deportation if they ever came to the authorities' notice.  Enforce strict penalties on such employers, and perhaps even send in a few under-cover officers for inspections.  If the fisheries industry is particularly problematic, put it in the spotlight.

 

As regards the forms of tourist-attracting human trafficking, only continued pressure against corruption and against "poor-quality tourists" will likely have much impact.  Though most of this sort of trafficking is supported by the locals, there's less leverage to accomplish much with them, as I see it.  It's my understanding that NGO's are largely inhibited from rendering assistance with abused persons on account of the corruption among the police who seem to be protecting it, despite its illegality.

It also helps when you remove the people in agencies that were reporting on these crimes or take them to court for saying bad things about the crooks. 

 

How are things in Pineapple and fishing?