Thailand's Improved Status In Us Human Trafficking Report Sparks Fury

[Coss]

Rights groups say Thailand’s upgraded standing in Trafficking in Persons report was politically motivated and ignores reported abuses in Thai fishing industry.

 

International rights groups have criticised the US government’s removal of Thailand from its global list of the worst offenders in human trafficking, branding it “the wrong decision at the wrong time†and claiming the move was politically motivated.

 

In the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, published on Thursday, Thailand is upgraded from tier 3, the lowest ranking on the list, to the tier 2 watchlist, indicating that the US government believes the Thai government has met the minimum standards required to fight trafficking.

 

The report cites “significant efforts†made by the Thai government to eliminate human trafficking within its borders. An increase in investigations, prosecutions and convictions, together with amended anti-trafficking legislation, were identified as factors in Thailand’s improved status.

 

 

However, the report also pointed to evidence of continued trafficking in the fishing, sex, agriculture and domestic work industries, as well as ongoing government complicity in trafficking crimes, which rights groups claim seriously impedes efforts to eradicate trafficking and slavery.

 

more = https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jun/30/thailand-us-trafficking-in-persons-report-2016-fury

[Flashermac]

Downgrading Thailand to the lowest level was politically motivated (pissed off by the coup), and improving it to the second level is just as political. That's how the world works, folks.

[cavanami]

When "recruiters" openly walk around in the park behind the police box looking for fresh meat for their

fishing boats...how is an upgrade possible?

 

Nothing has changed...corruption as usual...