The invisible workforce
This year saw the government achieve some success in its efforts to deal with illegal migrant workers, a problem often linked with forced labour and human trafficking.
In June, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha thanked the United States’ Department of State for upgrading Thailand in its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, which ranks countries prone to the crime, after the country fell to the lowest Tier 3 category in 2014.
Penchan Charoensuthipan & Wassayos Ngamkham
