Deputy PM Outlines Five Strategies to Combat Human Trafficking
Deputy Prime Minister Yashchanan Wongsuwat chaired a national anti-human trafficking committee meeting and unveiled a five-point strategy covering proactive prevention, stricter enforcement, victim protection, cross-agency data integration, and responses to cyber-enabled scam networks. He emphasized that trafficking damages Thailand's international credibility and economy, and committed to measurable targets with continuous progress reporting.
Deputy Prime Minister Yashchanan Wongsuwat chaired the second 2026 meeting of the Anti-Human Trafficking Committee at Government House on November 9, joined online by Social Development and Human Security Minister Nikor Somklang and relevant agencies. Yashchanan stressed that human trafficking undermines national credibility and the economy, not just social welfare, and presented five operational pillars: proactive prevention to build public immunity; serious enforcement to ease the burden on frontline officers; victim protection; full inter-agency integration with domestic and international data sharing; and adaptation to evolving cyber-enabled crimes such as online scam networks. He pledged measurable targets, continuous progress reporting, and personal leadership on data integration.
