Western NGOs Back Tier 3 TIP Ranking for Thailand
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Nation] - July 29, 2015
Twenty-five Western NGOs have written to US Secretary of State John Kerry, supporting the State Department's decision to maintain Thailand's Tier 3 designation in the 2015 Global Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report.
They included Human Rights Watch, Green Peace and the American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisations (AFL-CIO).
The NGOs said the Tier 3 ranking, as well as the research and recommendations contained in the report, would "be an important tool to continue to press Thai authorities to enact more substantive reforms to end the labour trafficking that can be found in many sectors of Thailand's economy, including seafood".
The letter said the decision comes at a vital time for leveraging change from the Thai government in its anti-trafficking efforts.
"Last year's downgrade to Tier 3 in the 2014 TIP Report, the decision by the European Union to issue Thailand a 'yellow card' for its failure to adequately monitor its fishing industry...
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