Master Poll has reservations about Thai human trafficking record

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Master Poll has reservations about Thai human trafficking record
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The Master Poll's study yesterday revealed 15 issues deterring Thailand's progress in tackling crimes involving human trafficking. They include agencies' differences in identifying victims, a lack of unity on related laws, and scattered data about the human trafficking crimes.

Other issues included the agencies' various standards and delays in aid to victims, the victims' confusion when seeking aid from agencies, a lack of established trust between the state agencies and the public as well as international community about witness and victim protection and, a lack of civil society participation in the measure assessment.

Master Poll executive Noppadol Kannikar said researchers urged the establishment of the Office of Human Trafficking Prevention and Suppression Commission, a state-run permanent agency with experts to handle anti-human trafficking works in a well-rounded manner with a good database, effective strategies, unified standards and civil society participation.

The study showed that interviewed persons - including Thai and foreign officials, international organisations and human trafficking victims - thought General Prayut Chan-o-cha's government and the National Council for Peace and Order were more serious in solving the problem than past governments.

But the respondents worried about inconstancy as Thailand based its operations on individuals rather than the system. Despite the country's input in terms of money, law and manpower, many perceived they still yielded small outcomes such as: the victims' database was too small and not credible, contradictions in points of view and the lack of civil society participation, he added.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Master-Poll-has-reservations-about-Thai-human-traf-30273191.html


-- The Nation 2015-11-18

[noitom]

Well gee whiz, this comes as a big surprise that Thais have failed in all these categories. There was one big omission and that is Thais lack the will to eliminate human trafficking. They have no will, no soul no morality for it and there is too much money to be made in it. Thais are not motivated by ethics, doing the right thing and law and order enforcement.

Edited November 17, 2015 by noitom

[selftaopath]

Well gee whiz, this comes as a big surprise that Thais have failed in all these categories. There was one big omission and that is Thais lack the will to eliminate human trafficking. They have no will, no soul no morality for it and there is too much money to be made in it. Thais are not motivated by ethics, doing the right thing and law and order enforcement.

BINGO !!!!!!!

[craigt3365]

Methinks they left out the big one. Corruption.

[NickJ]

Time is what they count on. As it takes very little of it until nobody cares about the problems or incident that created any diturbance in the first place. Short -term memory loss is a sociological problem here. It's pretty much hard wired in them to stop thinking about abything that happened a month ago.

[Emster23]

Master Poll shafts any hope for "chains we can believe in". Perhaps leaders will sit on it and spin...

[AlQaholic]

Judging from their website (Masterpoll) I am not very impressed by that organisation or whatever they have to say....

[elgordo38]

Methinks they left out the big one. Corruption.

Baby steps. Master poll hmm has a nice truth ring to it. As Craig says maybe they could do a poll on corruption and hope the big cheese in charge reads it. Methinks the administrators of Master poll will be heading to the indoctrination centre for an overhaul. The poll is definitely going against the grain and the big cheese's road map to nowhere.

[elgordo38]

Time is what they count on. As it takes very little of it until nobody cares about the problems or incident that created any diturbance in the first place. Short -term memory loss is a sociological problem here. It's pretty much hard wired in them to stop thinking about abything that happened a month ago.

Yes their memory and the memory of tourists world wide go through a 30 day defrag and reset.

[Srikcir]

"establishment of the Office of Human Trafficking Prevention and Suppression Commission"

That would be about as effective as the State agency National Human Rights Commission. Although the NHRC is an Independent Organization it has no powers to subpoena, prosecute nor take any enforcement actions. Even its investigations can be limited by the government, especially under the Junta government that can invoke Article 44 to completely control NHRC. NCPO wants to include in the new constitution merging NHRC with the Office of the Ombudsman, further denegrating its minimal authority.

Therefore, an OHTPSC would never be reality under the current government and draft constitution. But even if it should become a reality, it will be a paper tiger controlled by the military Tigers. It would only exist as a false front to display Thailand's concern for human trafficking.

If the current government wants to truly implement an effective organization to prevent and suppress human trafficking, it need only empower the NHRC to do so - no need for another agency. Such empowerment can be done immediately through legislation by the NCPO rubberstamp NLA. The upside is that such empowerment would be favorably viewed by the UN and Western countries but the downside would allow the NHRC to investigate military operations that are not typically transparent to the public.