Strict measures in place to tackle human trafficking: Anupong
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Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda Saturday revealed that concrete measures have been put in place to suppress human-trafficking crimes in Thailand and vowed to uphold international standards to help Thailand get out of Tier 3 of the United States' Traffi
The Department of Provincial Administration has been assigned to propel forward the seven-step road map, which includes driving the policy for implementation in tambon and communitylevels; preventing such crimes particularly through intelligence-gathering; strictly enforcing the laws against such cases; protecting damaged persons and witnesses; and promoting public participation, he said.
The Interior Ministry and related agencies began the process of registering migrant workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia in 2014 and this year had 1,050,068 of them renew their legal status so as to remain in Thailand for another year pending the nationality identification process, he said. Such a renewal process was also gone through by 80,418 migrant workers in the fishery industry, while the ministry was also working on providing minorities and stateless persons in Thailand the correct status.
