he perpetuation of human sex trafficking and the rising numbers of trafficked victims is also linked to Thailand’s weak government. The combination of widespread corruption among government officials and the lack of enforcement of laws concerning the Thai sex industry has lead to the prominence of human sex trafficking. The 1996 Prostitution Prevention and Prevention Act was implemented to punish pimps, procurers, brothel owners and customers, however; this law and many others designed to protect
Human trafficking has been a controversial issue for many years. There are different types of trafficking, which helps makes it a widely diverse issue. In Thailand, traffickers rely on the poor desperate people of other countries as well as their own to fulfill their needs financially, physically, and emotionally. Thailand has various reasons why they use human trafficking; sex exploitation, forced labor, and obtaining their organs for an organ transplant. Sex exploitation has been used by mainly
Thailand: According to the Department of State, “Thailand is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Victims from neighboring countries, such as China, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and Fiji migrate willingly to Thailand for various reasons, including fleeing conditions of poverty” (TIPR, 2013, p. 358). The countries that people are fleeing from are known for their poor living conditions, which help contribute to their “push” factors
wholly or in part by illegal means, while protecting their activities through a pattern of corruption or violence”. There are many activities that can be characterized as transnational organized crime, including drug trafficking, smuggling of migrants, human trafficking, trafficking in firearms, counterfeit goods, wildlife and cultural property, money-laundering, and even some aspects of cybercrime. As Globalization continues to occur technology related crimes are evolving and increasing, which is
Human trafficking is one of today’s egregious human rights violations. Traffickers focus on the most vulnerable members of society, preying mostly on women, and children, yet men are also trafficked in high numbers. Trafficking of a person refers to the, “illegal trade of a human being for sexual exploitation or forced labor through abduction, force, threat, or fraud” (UNOC 2015). Human trafficking can come in many forms such as, sex exploitation, forced labour, as well as forced donor-ship. The
and his team are in Thailand to help save thousands of women from being forced into sex slavery. Central Asia has earned millions of dollars from forcing woman and young children from being trafficked. In Bangkok, Thailand sex becomes one of the lucrative comities that many foreign men go for. Most of the clients are Middle Eastern men and they go to Thailand for sex and most women do the work willingly. One of the biggest well-known organizations that operate human trafficking is the Uzbeks. The
International Law and Regional Initiatives for Combating Human Trafficking in South Asia By Mahmudul Hasan For last few months our attention has been fixed at newspaper headlines that read the news about human trafficking from South Asia distained to Southeast Asian countries–especially to Malaysia and Thailand–through the sea. Evidently, most of the identified trafficked victims, for last few months, are Rohingya Muslims–who are persecuted from their own country, Myanmar–and rests of them are Bangladeshi
are approximately twenty to thirty million slaves in the world today. Unfortunately due to trafficking being a fast growing crime it is very difficult to identify and locate these organizations and victims. Although there are many groups created to support victims, not enough awareness is being made and not enough action is being applied to stop human trafficking. Sex trafficking is a form of human trafficking that has been a worldwide issue since ancient times, but regularly forgotten, due to it being
CHAPTER 3 IMPLICATIONS 3.1 Introduction Given the scale of the causes and the international ramifications, it is no wonder that a vast range of international treaties, guidelines, conventions and local legal regulations have been established to address ‘human trafficking’ worldwide. The causes as discussed in chapter two only briefly provided examples of the complex regional issues emerging in Southeast Asia. Chapter three will discuss and explore the range of measures undertaken and the focus
What is human trafficking? Based on Harris, 2012 “Human trafficking is a modern sort of bondage, it involves controlling a person through force, fraud, or compulsion to exploit the victim of coerced confinement, sexual exploitation, or both. Human trafficking strips victims of their freedom and violates our nation’s promise that every individual is guaranteed basic human right.” Why did human trafficking happen? Human trafficking activities are like a round, it never has any ended with it. By