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Thailand is the world's largest seafood exporter, its exports valued at about US$6.5 billion annually. [13] "Thailand's fishing industry is rife with trafficking and abuse". [14] Many reports since 2000 have documented the forced labour of trafficked workers in the Thai fishing industry. [15]
Child prostitution in Thailand is a controversial topic, and children who are a part of this trade are being compensated by various laws. An act passed in 1996 states that "it is prohibited to engage in sexual intercourse or sexual acts in a 'prostitution establishment' with a person under 18 years of age, regardless of consent". [ 18 ]
[27] In addition, Thailand has a number of bilateral memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for anti-trafficking cooperation with the governments of Cambodia (2003), Lao PDR (2005), and Myanmar (2009). [39] The Thai-Lao and Thai-Myanmar MOUs are executed through action plans as well as case management meetings to handle cross-border issues.
A Palestinian child labourer at the Kalya Junction, Lido beach, Delek petrol station, road 90 near the Dead Sea A child labourer in Dhaka, Bangladesh Child coal miners in Prussia, late 19th century A succession of laws on child labour, the Factory Acts, were passed in the UK in the 19th century.
Instances of forced labor in the fish and shrimp industry, as well as child labour in the pornography industry, are still observed in Thailand and have been reported in the 2013 U.S. Department of Labor's report on the worst forms of child labor [144] and in the 2014 List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor.
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Don't! Buy! Thai! was a campaign initiated in the early 1990s by child welfare advocate and author Andrew Vachss to boycott goods and services produced in Thailand until its government introduced formal and practical reforms to significantly curtail the prostitution of children.
The Child Watch Phuket Association is a humanitarian non-profit organization in Thailand, fighting against child abuse and exploitation. Founded and based in Phuket . Organization aims to help child labourers and enslaved child prostitutes to live normal and healthy child life and find the way out from exploitation.