Anti-Human Trafficking Decent Work

Prevention and protection from human trafficking and upholding labour rights for migrant workers

Human trafficking in Thailand primarily occurs in the context of large-scale labour migration from neighboring Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Myanmar. Because effective recruitment systems and migration governance frameworks are not universally applied, migrant workers remain vulnerable to exploitation at various points during the migration process.

Our work is to ensure that migrants in Thailand access protection services and labour entitlements as stipulated in the Thai law. WVFT implements integrated services and sectoral programmes for migrant workers, integrating health, decent work, and social protection services in the fisheries, agriculture, construction and manufacturing sectors. As part of this programme, WVFT also leverages its effective training model, collaboration and engagement with community-based migrant health volunteers to conduct outreach on labour rights and referral to service providers.

To resource this multi-sector and integrated approach to service delivery, WVFT has built relationships with a range of donors and development partners including IOM, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, ILO Winrock International, USAID, and the EU.

As an implementing partner on the USAID Thailand CTIP project, WVFT delivers capacity building for local government and NGO service providers, develops victim-centered and trauma-informed training packages, implementing guidelines on victim identification, referral, protection and investigation. With IOM, WVFT conducts awareness raising on safe migration and labour rights ; and has recently conducted research with UNDP on forced criminality in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region. WVFT has long supported the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) Process, including as a member of the Thailand National Steering Committee and by supporting young people develop and present policy recommendations to Senior Officials through the COMMIT process. As part of the ILO Safe and Fair Programmeme, under the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, WVFT is also reaching women migrant workers and their families in construction camps, ensuring their rights and entitlements are protected and respected.

In 2023, the Anti-Human Trafficking Decent Work programme reached a total of

Adults

0 .

Children

0 .

WVFT’s work as featured by partners and donors can be accessed by clicking on the following links:

ILO: Reaching women migrant workers and their families in construction camps: https://www.ilo.org/asia/media-centre/news/WCMS_847539/lang–en/index.htm
USAID/Winrock: Strengthening Civil society Coordination and Collaboration in Chiang Rai: https://winrock.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Thailand-CTIP-WV-CCT-Case-Study.pdf
USAID/Winrock: Strengthening Migrant Participation in the Provincial Labor Protection System on the USAID Thailand CTIP Project: https://winrock.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Thailand-CTIP-World-Vision-Roundtable-Case-Study.pdf
UNDP: Learning from Provincial and District Responses to Trafficking in Persons for Forced Criminality: https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2023-09/undp-rbap-traffickinginpersons-2023_0.pdf
IOM/SEI: International Labour Migration in a Changing Climate: Insights from Malaysia and Thailand: https://publications.iom.int/books/international-labour-migration-changing-climate-insights-malaysia-and-thailand

Human Mobility and Migration

Promoted migrants’ rights to be protected and have a quality of life.

Migrant Health

Infectious disease and health systems strengthening

Women and Children affected by Migration

Access to legal status, birth registration, protection, education and health care for migrant women and their families