Burmese nationals are increasingly vulnerable to human trafficking crimes in Thailand. Ongoing civil unrest, conflict, economic hardship, and the anticipated enforcement of Burma’s conscription law increased the number of civilians migrating to Thailand.

Significant illegal migration to Thailand presents traffickers with opportunities to coerce or defraud undocumented migrants into involuntary servitude or sexual exploitation. Police who investigated reaching high-profile authorities also received death threats in 2015.

Today, Thailand is not only a paradise for backpackers and honeymooners, but a key destination country for migrant workers, human trafficking and forced labour. In 2019, an estimated 3.9 million migrant workers were living and working in Thailand, both legally and illegally.

Traffickers subject Thai nationals to forced labor and sex trafficking in countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Thai women and LGBTQI+ individuals are exploited in Switzerland in sex trafficking. Thai citizens who travel to Norway for family reunification are at risk of sex and labor trafficking.

As reported over the past five years, human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Thailand, and traffickers exploit Thai victims abroad. Labor and sex traffickers exploit women, men, LGBTQI+ individuals, and children from Thailand, other Southeast Asian countries, Sri Lanka, Russia, Uzbekistan, and some African countries in Thailand.

Jun 25, 2024 · Government agencies across all sectors in Thailand are steadfastly and continuously engaged in combating human trafficking to protect and safeguard both Thai citizens and foreigners residing in Thailand, in line with human rights principles.

Jun 20, 2014 · For four years the U.S. State Department has warned Thailand that it hasn’t been doing enough to combat human trafficking. It said the country was a source, transit point and destination for...

Human trafficking in Thailand is generally committed for three purposes: for sexual exploitation, for forced labour/services and slavery or practices like slavery, and for exploitation through begging.8 Human trafficking for the purposes of forced labour, especially in the context of irregular migration of people from Myanmar or other neighbouri...

What is the human trafficking situation in Thailand? Thailand is a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking12. It is a destination-side hub of exploitation in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, for both sex and labour exploitation.

The present study tackles the challenge of human trafficking in Thailand from an emic perspective so as to avoid the ethnocentrism that is so prevalent in the literature dealing with human rights.