Inside the fight against human trafficking
The Thai Community Development Centre in Los Angeles says the Global Horizons reflects an increasing trend of Thais being forced into indentured labour
We are confronted by new and ever more unsettling trafficking and slavery cases _ forced prostitution, involuntary servitude, debt peonage, even the renting of children for use in the trafficking of women.
Worst of all, the majority of the cases in the US continue to involve Thais and interestingly, men not women. Going against the common perception of human trafficking as the trafficking of women and girls for sexual slavery, the majority of our victims are male and the purposes for which they are trafficked include garment work, domestic work, welding and increasingly farm work.
Our current case involving Thai farm workers is considered the largest case of human trafficking in US history. We realised the magnitude of this case immediately upon learning that Global Horizons brought more than 1,100 Thai farm workers to the US between 2003 and 2005 by legal means, on seasonal agricultural worker (H-2A) visas. Hence, we are now seeing a trend of a legalised form of slavery.
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- Writer: Chanchanit Martorell
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