Why isn the government involved in DEPDC / Why doesn the government stop trafficking and prostitution?
The Thai government has signed and ratified various MOU’s (Memorandum of Understanding), UN conventions and has passed laws on the suppression of prostitution. But in reality, with problems such as lack of founding at both low level and high level government corruption there is very little action on the ground. The following extract is from a Presentation by Mr Ben Svasti, Director, TRAFCORD ( Co ordination Centre Anti-Trafficking Operations Northern Thailand) given at the International Conference “21st Century Slavery: The Human Rights Dimension to Trafficking in Human Beings”, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, May 2002.
