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Efforts to protect Thai seafood workers from labor exploitation and modern slavery risk stalling as most international brands and retailers refuse to pay their suppliers more to comply with new anti-slavery policies, researchers said on Wednesday.Thai seafood suppliers are struggling with rising production costs as ...

Human traffickers in Thailand have ignored court orders to pay compensation to victims in more than the 99% of convicted cases in recent years. The flouting of the court orders is fuelling fears that many survivors could be victimised again.Thai courts have ordered traffickers to ...

Human traffickers in Thailand have ignored court orders to compensate victims in more than 99% of cases in recent years, fuelling fears that many survivors could be re-trafficked, data obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed.Keep reading ...

Thailand is often associated with culinary delights, sandy beaches, and beautiful temples, but it also has its share of human rights-related labour problems. Today, there continue to be a significant number of forced-labour victims in the country. According to the US State Department’s 2019 Trafficking ...

Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwon has instructed all agencies to join hands to fight human trafficking in every possible way after the United States’ report on the trafficking in persons kept Thailand in Tier 2 this year.Keep watching ...

Malaysia has been urged to emulate Thailand in the management of human trafficking cases by allowing collaboration between enforcement agencies and civic groups.Patchareeboon Sakulpitakphon, who works with the Asian chapter of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), told FMT the partnership would ensure ...

Southeast Asian foreign ministers opened their annual meeting Wednesday with a call from host Thailand for deeper integration to expand trade and bolster prosperity in the region amid rising global challenges.The meeting takes place in the shadows of rising security tension on the Korean Peninsula, ...

The number of human trafficking victims rescued in Thailand is set to hit a record high this year, according to government data, with demand for cheap labour in neighbouring Malaysia causing a jump in the illegal trade.Thai police have rescued 974 trafficking victims – mostly ...

Thai authorities continue tackling human trafficking, though the country has been upgraded to Tier 2 on the US’s Trafficking In Persons report. Measures are focused on the protection of those at risk, particularly children and youths.Keep watching ...

The Labour Ministry is stepping up measures to curb the growing number of Thai nationals intending to live and work illegally in South Korea, as the number of illegal Thai immigrants in South Korea has soared to 140,000. The ministry’s Department of Employment has told ...