The government sighed with relief when the country’s anti-trafficking performance moved up from the Tier 2 Watchlist to Tier 2 in the US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, released on July 19. As its corruption fight has lagged, however, the country is still far from eliminating this heinous crime. Had Thailand’s status dropped to Tier 3, it would have enhanced the country’s reputation as one of the world’s worst offenders in human trafficking. That happened in 2014 and 2015 when Thailand made international headlines for its brutality against the Rohingya boat people and the discovery of the…

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