Thailand Working to Upgrade Status on Human Trafficking Watchlist

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The government hopes to improve Thailand’s position in the United States’ Trafficking in Persons report.

 

Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Prawit Wongsuwon on Wednesday presided over a meeting of the government committee on the prevention and suppression of human trafficking. The objective was to follow up on the progress to improve Thailand’s status on the US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. He urged related agencies to follow the recommendations provided in the 2022 Interim Assessment Report given to 45 countries in the Tier 2 watchlist.

 

According to deputy secretary-general to the prime minister Pol Gen Thammasak Witchayara, the government is currently establishing a trafficking victims screening center with cooperation from the Immigration Bureau, the Royal Thai Police Headquarters, the Labour Ministry, and the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society. The center will create a system that connects to the international human trafficking database, ensuring that victims receive legal services in accordance with international human rights standards. He said that the project is already around 80% complete, with renovations and necessary equipment being installed at the facility.

 

Thailand was demoted from Tier 2 to Tier 2 Watchlist in 2021. The government hopes that its efforts to combat human trafficking would allow Thailand to be reinstated on the Tier 2 list in 2022.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2022-02-17

 

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[Chang_paarp]

The trick might be to actually do something, rather than talking about it.

[sammieuk1]

Just as a serious problem gets some attention up pops DPM blingman to destroy all credibility ????

[DaveE13]

Hahaha ole fatty in charge. 

[khunjeff]

Not working to eliminate a criminal scourge in order to stop thousands of desperately poor people from being harmed, but working to upgrade the country's status on an international list in order to save face.

[Soikhaonoiken]

Thailands been working on this list for the past 20 yrs.... 

[smedly]

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Prawit Wongsuwon

who voted for him ?

[Bluespunk]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

According to deputy secretary-general to the prime minister Pol Gen Thammasak Witchayara, the government is currently establishing a trafficking victims screening center

Yeah right, because it’s a lack of a building that’s the root cause of the trafficking problem…

Edited February 17, 2022 by Bluespunk

[pokerface1]

11 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Just as a serious problem gets some attention up pops DPM blingman to destroy all credibility ????

Your right he popped up so quick he forgot to put his watch on. 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

Thailands been working on this list for the past 20 yrs.... 

It's been skirting the issue for the last 20 years while trying to convince the world it's doing something positive.

[Damrongsak]

1 hour ago, pokerface1 said:

Your right he popped up so quick he forgot to put his watch on. 

Looks like he's wearing a watch, maybe two.  

[hotchilli]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The government hopes to improve Thailand’s position in the United States’ Trafficking in Persons report

That takes change not BS talk.

[smedly]

one simple question

 

do workers from Cambodia get minimum wage in Thailand ?

[smedly]

this is also the DPM responsible for "road safety" in Thailand, says it all really

[thaiman]

They've been working on this for like 7 years and have not improved.  Maybe if they stopped doing so much business with China they would magically move up in rankings?  Stupid Thais trying to play at the big table with the USA, and not knowing how the game actually works.

[rudi49jr]

Going to be a long and uphill battle.

[Mr Meeseeks]

17 hours ago, khunjeff said:

Not working to eliminate a criminal scourge in order to stop thousands of desperately poor people from being harmed, but working to upgrade the country's status on an international list in order to save face.

This. ????

[PETERTHEEATER]

9 hours ago, pokerface1 said:

Your right he popped up so quick he forgot to put his watch on. 

Judging from the thickness of the object on his right wrist it's a sun-dial hand-hewn from rare 

Italian marble........

[internationalism]

very related:  

"Exiled Former Police General Speak Out After 6 Years  

BANGKOK -- A former police general who fled Thailand to seek refuge in Australia after his anti-human trafficking works threatened his safety broke silence after more than six years on Saturday.

In a video conference from Australia with Move Forward Party MP Rangsiman Rome and Progressive Movement member Pannika Wanich, Pol Maj Gen Paween Pongsirin who once led Thai police’s anti-human trafficking team, particularly on the trafficking of the Rohingya people, spoke of the joy of being able to talk about his fears publicly after he claimed that those at the very top echelon of Thai powers had a hand in the deadly Rohingya trafficking which treated human no better than animals.

Things would have been different if Thailand was truly democratic and with an honest administration, he said. Paween said he fled Thailand in Nov 2015 after his investigation into mass graves at migrant camps was halted after five months by influential people in the government, including the military and police themselves.

https://www.facebook.com/KhaosodEnglish/posts/5245709785447911

[DaveE13]

1 hour ago, internationalism said:

very related:  

"Exiled Former Police General Speak Out After 6 Years  

BANGKOK -- A former police general who fled Thailand to seek refuge in Australia after his anti-human trafficking works threatened his safety broke silence after more than six years on Saturday.

In a video conference from Australia with Move Forward Party MP Rangsiman Rome and Progressive Movement member Pannika Wanich, Pol Maj Gen Paween Pongsirin who once led Thai police’s anti-human trafficking team, particularly on the trafficking of the Rohingya people, spoke of the joy of being able to talk about his fears publicly after he claimed that those at the very top echelon of Thai powers had a hand in the deadly Rohingya trafficking which treated human no better than animals.

Things would have been different if Thailand was truly democratic and with an honest administration, he said. Paween said he fled Thailand in Nov 2015 after his investigation into mass graves at migrant camps was halted after five months by influential people in the government, including the military and police themselves.

https://www.facebook.com/KhaosodEnglish/posts/5245709785447911

Remember him. Glad he still alive and speaking out against this corrupt government