Thailand gets upgraded in US TIP report
According to a statement released by the US embassy in Bangkok, the Tier 2 Watch List ranking indicates that the Thai government made significant efforts to eliminate trafficking during the rating period, but still does not fully meet the minimum standards for doing so. The State Department credited Thailand for undertaking legal reforms; for convicting 241 traffickers during 2015, compared with 104 in 2014; and for filing criminal charges against 34 officials in 2015, up from seven in 2014. The government will continue working on measures to combat human trafficking regardless of whether the country is upgraded in the United States’ Trafficking in Persons Report, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said before the release of the report.
