Human trafficking

• Aardrijkskunde
• WO
• HBO
• Studiejaar 3

Human trafficking in Thailand

By: Renske Burger, Leon de Jong & Sanne Meinsma

Content

- What is human trafficking

- Causes

- Effect

- Context of sex industry

- Solutions

- Discussion

Human trafficking

Not human trafficking

Sexual exploitation 

Offering someone a home

Forced labor

Debt bondage

Smuggle people over the border

Forced organ removal

Begging

What is human trafficking?

Men, women and children of all ages and from all backgrounds can become victims of this crime, which occurs in every region of the world.

Poverty

Migrants + high demand in labour

Politics

- Nepotism 

- Cultural values coming from religion

There are 6 consequences of human trafficking

- Breaking human rights 

- Economically

- Politics

- Debt bondage  

- Organized crime gangs  

- Sex industry 

History of sextourism 

- Korean/Vietnam wars

- R&R breaks  

-  a dark turn 

- sex trafficking 

-  industrialized in 1980

- 1990s, 400k, 79%

1993 to 1995, 25 billion

Human trafficking and sex industry 

- Some statistics

- Economic victims

- Sex traffic victims

- Domestically and abroad

Reasons + Ways of recruitment

Reason 1: Poverty

Reason 2: Buddhistic Merit 

(Nirvana) 

Criminal Gangs

Social media

Scouts

Solutions 

Discussion

- Respect each other

- Let people finish their sentences

- 1 minute to think about a opinion

Every prositute in Thailand is being abused and therefore prostitution should stay illigal 

The police makes a lot of money by approving illigal prostition and therefore it should stay illigal 

Making prostitution legal in Thailand is disrespectful to Buddhistic values  

Questions?