{"id":4987,"date":"2024-05-20T11:28:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T15:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2024-05-28T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T19:59:48","slug":"thailand-australia-centre-of-excellence-to-fight-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/2024\/05\/20\/thailand-australia-centre-of-excellence-to-fight-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand-Australia Centre of Excellence to Fight Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Justice Pol Colonel Tawee Sodsong and Angela Macdonald, Australia\u2019s ambassador to Thailand, officially inaugurated the Counter Trafficking in Persons Centre of Excellence (CTIP-COE) in Thailand, located at the Department of Special Investigation Academy in the capital\u2019s Nong Chok district on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This centre is an initiative of the Thai government, supported by the Australian government through the ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking (ASEAN-ACT) program. ASEAN-ACT is a 10-year programme by the Australian government, building on the long-standing cooperation between Australia and ASEAN, spanning over 20 years, aimed at addressing human trafficking issues.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4989 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FqksfXOLvZuLUecXECPu-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FqksfXOLvZuLUecXECPu-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FqksfXOLvZuLUecXECPu-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FqksfXOLvZuLUecXECPu-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FqksfXOLvZuLUecXECPu.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Addressing human trafficking, a global crime, cannot be achieved by any single country alone. Collaboration alone is not enough; there must be sincerity and seriousness, with all stakeholders participating equally in tackling this issue,&#8221; Tawee stated.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Macdonald congratulated the Thai government for taking on a leadership role and showing determination in addressing human trafficking. &#8220;The CTIP-COE is the first training centre of its kind in our region. It aims to enhance knowledge, experience, and skills necessary for combating human trafficking and related crimes,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand and Australia signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the CTIP-COE in November 2022, marking the beginning of cooperation in this area. The establishment of the centre aims to achieve strategic partnership objectives between Thailand and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries have reiterated their commitment to enhancing cooperation to combat human trafficking and related crimes, such as the ongoing enforcement of labour regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Friday also marked the conclusion of the CTIP-COE training course for 48 personnel from across the country working in prevention and suppression of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationthailand.com\/news\/policy\/40038136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nationthailand.com\/news\/policy\/40038136<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Justice Pol Colonel Tawee Sodsong and Angela Macdonald, Australia\u2019s ambassador to Thailand, officially inaugurated the Counter Trafficking in Persons Centre of Excellence (CTIP-COE) in Thailand, located at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/2024\/05\/20\/thailand-australia-centre-of-excellence-to-fight-human-trafficking\/\" class=\"read-more button-fancy -red\"><span class=\"btn-arrow\"><\/span><span class=\"twp-read-more text\">Continue Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,49,23,21,26,22,27,35],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-australia","tag-combatlabortrafficking","tag-human-trafficking","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-online-scamming","tag-thai-labor","tag-thai-nationals","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}