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Punish slavery vessels now
News, Published on 17/04/2015
» Nearly 100 victims of slave and forced labour on commercial trawlers have finally returned home after being stranded on Indonesia's Ambon and Benjina islands for years. Several hundred more, not only Thais but also men from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos — who managed to escape enslavement on fishing boats — are still waiting to be rescued.
The big issue: The TIP-ping point
Alan Dawson, Published on 29/03/2015
» The annual March campaign to pass laws, speak sternly and promise sincerely began last week. It will run until the April announcement by the United States to cut the talking and start writing the new human trafficking report. That will be published in June.
Thai slaves in the spotlight
News, Published on 28/03/2015
» All eyes are on Thailand once again on the use of slave labour in the fishing and seafood industry following the AP investigative report which was splashed in the news media worldwide on Wednesday.
Trafficking shame is quick to resurface
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 26/01/2015
» No sooner had Thai authorities proved some progress had been made in their efforts to tackle human trafficking than new, shameful cases emerged.
Trafficking is alive and well
News, Published on 14/01/2015
» Yet another news report started the week proving the abysmal failure in the fight against human trafficking. A Rohingya woman, among nearly 100 crammed like animals into a pickup truck, was crushed to death.
Business must change ways
News, Published on 10/01/2015
» Thailand's export industry is facing a rude awakening. The tax privileges from the European Union (EU), which Thai products had enjoyed for decades, stopped on New Year's Day.
Indonesia is wrong
News, Published on 05/01/2015
» The South China Sea, already one of the most tense areas of the world, became more dangerous last month. The well-known problems revolve around China's aggressive insistence that it owns every island and shoal and pretty well every square kilometre of seabed.
End graft to end slavery
News, Published on 26/12/2014
» The government's plans to issue more rules and regulations to combat human trafficking are bound to come to nothing when the crux of the problem remains untouched — corruption.
Stop slavery on our shores
News, Published on 12/12/2014
» Mention slave labour on Thai commercial trawlers, and it evokes the images of victimised migrant workers from Myanmar and Cambodia. But recent rescue missions by labour rights groups have revealed that Thai men — and boys — are also the victims of this modern-day slave trade. Not one or two, but in the hundreds.
The plot thickens as two wealthy businessmen flee
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/12/2014
» Nopporn Suppipat and Sahachai Chiansoemsin are wealthy businessmen who have dominated the headlines in recent weeks. They are allegedly connected to the group linked to Pol Lt Gen Pongpat Chayapan, the former commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau who is currently held in custody on various criminal charges ranging from bribery and abuse of power to lese majeste.