Thailand faces pressure over trafficking in Myanmar | Thaiger
Dec 19, 2024 · The Civil Society Network for Victim Assistance in Human Trafficking has reported that over 300 individuals from more than 10 nations are being detained and coerced into working for online scamming and other criminal syndicates in Myanmar.
Exclusive: Inside the Chinese-Run Crime Hubs of Myanmar that Are ...
Jul 22, 2023 · A day into their freedom, sitting at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Mae Sot – the same Thai border town they were trafficked through late last year – the pair recalled their nervous final moments as a boat edged across a narrow neck of river towards safety.
Mae Sot - Wikipedia
It is home to the district headquarters of Mae Sot District, and is the main gateway between Thailand and Burma. As a result, it has gained notoriety for its trade in gems and teak, as well as black market services such as human trafficking and illicit drugs.
Mae Sot's Human Trafficking Crisis Worsens - irrawaddy.com
Since FFW opened its Centre for Trafficked Women and Children in Mae Sot the group has seen a steady flow of victims come in and out of their shelter—victims who had not only been trafficked around Mae Sot, but ended up further afield.
Thai police say Chinese actor was trafficked to Myanmar to work …
Jan 8, 2025 · Thai police say a Chinese actor who disappeared and was found near the border of Myanmar in an area where online scam networks operate was a victim of human trafficking
Survivors of Myanmar’s Scam Mills Talk ‘Torture,’ Death, Organ ...
Jul 22, 2023 · Grace Mata was trafficked to KK Park, in the Myawaddy area, in July last year. Four months later, the 22-year-old Kenyan was transported back to Thailand unconscious and admitted to a hospital in the Thai border town of Mae Sot in a critical condition. She died almost two weeks later.
A Chinese actor was abducted from Thailand. His swift return has ...
Jan 14, 2025 · The Civil Society Network for Victim Assistance in Human Trafficking, an NGO based in Thailand, estimates that about 6,000 victims from 21 countries are held under duress at the scam compounds in ...
China repatriates hundreds of scam factory survivors
Feb 29, 2024 · More than 1,000 victims of human trafficking have been freed from scam factories in Myanmar. The three-day operation comes after DW published an investigation exposing the brutal compounds and...
Lao teen freed from scam center now at trafficking victims facility …
Apr 13, 2024 · A 19-year-old Lao girl who was forced to work at a Chinese-run online scam center in Myanmar for two years is safe at a rehabilitation facility for human trafficking victims in Thailand, two...
Mae Sot's sour trafficking record - Bangkok Post
Nov 24, 2024 · Mae Sot, a town on the Thai-Myanmar border in Tak province, is notorious as a hub for cross-border human trafficking and transnational organised crime run by Chinese mafia syndicates. Despite...
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