This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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According to the State Department report released this Friday, Thailand and Malaysia are among the two dozen other countries doing the least to fight human trafficking. This revelation could lead to economic as well as diplomatic penalties.
Malaysia has obtained the Tier 3 status, which is the lowest ranking, placeing the Southeast Asian countries alongside North Korea, Iran and Zimbabwe in the eyes of the department. The state department publishes an annual report assessing efforts by the world’s governments to combat human trafficking. Thailand now ranks below its neighbor Myanmar, a former Tier 3 country whose rating has improved since it began moving toward democracy in recent years. The report said that the majority of trafficking victims in Thailand – “tens of thousands … by conservative estimates” – were migrants from neighboring countries “forced, coerced, or defrauded into labor or exploited in the sex trade.”
“Overall antitrafficking law enforcement efforts remained insufficient compared with the size of the problem in Thailand, and corruption at all levels hampered the success of these efforts,” the report informed. Referring to nongovernmental organizations, it added, “Despite frequent media and NGO reports documenting instances of forced labor and debt bondage among foreign migrants in Thailand’s commercial sectors — including the fishing industry — the government demonstrated few efforts to address these trafficking crimes.”
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