Year: 2015

Thailand continued to take a new and strong leadership role in the region in the fight against human trafficking by organizing and hosting a second international conference on the issue Continue Reading

On 3 December 2015, Ambassador Pisan Manawapat met with Ambassador Susan Coppedge, Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, who recently Continue Reading

By Penchan Charoensuthipan for the Bangkok Post on 2 December, 2015, Labour authorities and the modelling association have vowed to jointly tackle the problem of foreign models working illegally in Continue Reading

The CEO of Thai Union Group, the country’s largest seafood company, insisted last week that the government has made substantial progress against illegal fishing and human trafficking in the fishing Continue Reading

Police have obtained warrants for the arrest of 11 more suspects in the trafficking of 98 Rohingya migrants intercepted in southern Nakhorn Sri Thammarat province in January, in a case Continue Reading

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha stood his ground and officially revoked the licenses of 8,024 fishing trawlers last week, showing no leniency in the government’s campaign to end illegal, unregulated and Continue Reading

  Fact Sheets on Thailand’s Latest Efforts to Combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing:     Highlights of Thailand’s New Fisheries Legislation Highlights of Thailand’s Marine Fisheries Management Plan, Continue Reading

Eleven more warrants will be issued next week for the arrest of human trafficking suspects, Nakhon Si Thammarat police revealed. Pol Lt-General Thesa Siriwatho, chief of Provincial Police Region 8, Continue Reading

The Criminal Court began proceedings last week in the trial of 88 people charged with human trafficking of Rohingya and other migrants in the largest and most extensive human trafficking Continue Reading