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Only a coordinated effort among the region’s countries will have a lasting impact on human trafficking in Southeast Asia.
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Nineteen Burmese workers rescued from human traffickers on Sunday now face months in detention as the case against their accused abusers proceeds.
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Migrants say they were smuggled into central Thailand by armed traffickers. After walking for three days, they were abandoned in the woods with no food.
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The 28 men, 23 women and three children were caught after a tip-off to police while en route to Bangkok. Eight Thai drivers may be charged with trafficking.
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Two Burmese migrants – a father and son – were sold by human traffickers a total of three times from one owner to another in southern Thailand’s Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.
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A woman has died after being smuggled by human-traffickers. Three traffickers have been arrested and the migrants held in bust by Thai authorities.
Lead Story News Shan Women's Issues
Two separate parents, apparently persuaded by human traffickers to sell their daughters as brides in China, were arrested and are currently being questioned by police in Lashio, northern Shan State.
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The US government has downgraded Thailand in its latest Trafficking in Persons report for failing to combat the trafficking of workers in various sectors, particularly Burmese men in the abusive and brutal fishing industry.
“Not only do we refuse to withdraw any lawsuit, but we are processing another suit against Reuters as well,” Vice Admiral Tharathorn Khajitsuwan tells the Bangkok Post.
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More than 100 Burmese are arrested along with three suspected members of a human smuggling gang after Thai police got a tip-off that a gang would try to smuggle illegal immigrants from Burma to Bangkok.
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Thai police rescue, then detain, 531 Rohingyas from a remote camp in Sadao, near the Malaysian border, in a raid prompted by a Reuters report into human trafficking in the area.
