the Myanmar registration offices are now established along the Thai‐Myanmar border.
The process is on‐going and the deadline is in 2012.
∙ Children and Women : The Southeast Asia National Human Rights Institutions Forum
signed Memorandum of Understanding Against Trafficking of Women and Children on
March 30, 2010. The four countries in Southeast Asia with National Human Rights
Commission are Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. The objectives are:
(1) To prevent and combat trafficking of women and children in Southeast Asia and in
other regions in the world; (2) To strengthen cooperation amongst the member
institutions in the area of trafficking of women and children; and (3) To foster
cooperation amongst national human rights institutions in the world to address
trafficking.
The MOU is applied to support the process of monitoring or strengthening the efforts,
where appropriate, of the States of Member Institutions, to enable trafficked women
and children to get access to legal remedies, and other forms of intervention.
∙ Other : In addition to migrant labor and children and women issues, there are many
collaborations carried out at the regional and inter‐regional levels. The ones that
Thailand is involved in include:
(1) Core group under the Asia Europe Framework - ASEM Plan of Action on
Trafficking in Human.
(2) Consultative member of Asia Pacific Cooperation - Inter Government Asia
Pacific Informal Consultations on Refugees, Displaced Persons and Migrants.
(3) Member of ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime―AMMTC to
carry out the Work Programme to Implement the ASEAN Plan of Action to
Combat Transnational Crime.
Ⅶ. Conclusion
This paper attempts to discuss regional cooperation on the issue of trafficking of children
and women in Asia. The case of Thailand is used to demonstrate the different levels of
cooperation which took place. Other countries should have similar experience. We should try
to assess the success or failure of the different mechanism deployed to date.
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