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- Australia-Asia program to combat trafficking in persons
- Phuket Gazette - 27 January 2015 - Thailand’s criminal-justice response to human trafficking received a boost from the Australian government yesterday, as an ...
- IOM urges Thailand, Asean to block repeat of migrant crisis
- Bangkok Post - 1 December 2015 - Southeast Asian countries were urged on Tuesday to treat migrants landing on their shores humanely and avoid a repeat of this ...
- UN and Myanmar spar over Rohingya at migrant talks
- Al Jazeera - 29 May 2015 - Seventeen nations attend summit in Bangkok on Southeast Asia crisis but talks not being attended at minister level.
- Why you should be wary of statistics on ‘modern slavery’ and ‘trafficking’
- Washington Post - 24 April 2015 - Human trafficking — or, as some prefer, “modern slavery” — is a largely hidden crime, so data are relatively scarce. Note ...
- Fair recruitment initiative
- The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a global “Fair Recruitment Initiative” (ILO-FAIR) to: - help prevent human trafficking - protect the ...
- Child trafficking: ‘worst form’ of child labour, or worst approach to young migrants?
- Open Democracy - 13 July 2015 - Child trafficking is often used synonymously with child labour migration. This framing does a disservice to many child ...
- 20 foreign women rescued from trafficking syndicate
- Free Malaysia Today - 15 January 2016 - The Indonesian and Cambodian women, aged 17-40, were found locked in a room on the premises.
- Forced labour and human trafficking: A policy position paper of the ASEAN Confederation of Employers
- As part of the employers’ component of the ASEAN Triangle project an Action Plan to fully engaging employers’ organizations in ASEAN processes was developed ...
- Thousands of Nepali migrants lose farms in debt bondage
- Reuters - 24 March 2015 - Thousands of Nepali farmers have fallen into debt bondage and lost their land after paying exorbitant fees to agents for jobs abroad, ...
- PM to unveil new plan for traffickers
- Bangkok Post - 3 April 2015 - Fixing forced labour to get top priority
- Regulating labour recruitment to prevent human trafficking and to foster fair migration: Models, challenges and opportunities
- This working paper presents the role of international labour standards in regulating recruitment and provides a preliminary overview of national laws, ...
- Migration experiences of Lao workers deported from Thailand in 2013
- "Migration experiences of Lao workers deported from Thailand in 2013" draws on a data set collected at the Wang Tao–Chong Mek border crossing in 2013 involving ...
- US renews call for Thai crackdown on fishing abuses
- Bangkok Post - 26 March 2015 - The US government and major business leaders are renewing their call on the Thai government to crack down on slavery in its ...
- Rise in human trafficking reveals poverty of our response to Nepal earthquake
- The Guardian - 6 May 2015 - Opportunists are pouncing on the chaos in Nepal to force vulnerable people into slavery. It’s not a new problem – but one we ...
- Fifteen Years of the UN Trafficking Protocol
- Anti-Trafficking Review, No 4 (2015): Fifteen Years of the UN Trafficking Protocol. 2015 marks the 15th anniversary of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, ...
- Domestic worker from Myanmar rescues sister from a decade of slavery
- The Straits Times - 18 November 2015 - When Ms Aye Than Dar and her little sister Hla Thidar Myint paid a broker in Myanmar's Mon state to smuggle them to ...
- ILO welcomes drive to end trafficking
- Bangkok Post - 14 January 2015 - Narong claims efforts are only for show
- AFP investigating record number of human trafficking cases in Australia
- Sydney Morning Herald - 31 October 2014 - Federal police are investigating a record number of human trafficking cases in Australia, involving sex slavery, ...
- The need for a gendered approach to exploitation and trafficking
- Open Democracy - 14 August 2015 - Victimisation of women is still dominant in policies and discourse on trafficking. Could a gendered approach that accounts ...