On Assistance for Victims of Human Trafficking
Forced prostitution and child prostitution have currently
been in connection with transnational organized crimes. Many countries
have made great efforts to impose legal measures and adopt conventions
in order to secure the prohibition and prevention of human right
violations. Thailand has also ratified the Convention on the Elimination
of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), UN Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime (UN-TOC), Convention on the
Rights of the Child (CRC), Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
and etc. As one of the member states, Thailand shall develop mechanism
and justice system as being bound by the Conventions. Thailand has
maintained efforts to prohibit and suppress modern-day slavery by
putting in place of the Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking
in Women and Children Act B.E. 2540 (1997). Thailand has also
established laws in order to combat human trafficking, resulting in
the proclamation of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act B.E. 2551
(2008). The latter, which has replaced the Prevention and Suppression
of Trafficking in Women and Children Act B.E. 2540 (1997), is then
used to suppress human trafficking crimes and protect victims of human
trafficking