About Human-Trafficking

Human-trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by the means of threat, force, deception, or abuse of power for the purpose of exploitation including prostitution, sexual exploitation, labor, slavery, removal of organs, adoption, or marriage. 

In the Mekong sub-region, estimates indicate that anywhere from a few thousand to 200,000 individuals are trafficked each year.  Trafficked victims are typically females who come from minority, rural, economically disadvantaged backgrounds and have low levels of educational attainment. These women are often trafficked into prostitution.  In Thailand, the expectation that female children are to provide income for their parents is one of the contributors to the high number of women who are trafficked. 

Source: UNIAP