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(3) The MSDHS, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Education, the Government Public Relations
Department, television channels, and civil society organizations should help providing
knowledge on human trafficking in school, communities, as well as at the country level. The
purpose of it is to raise awareness and help those who are vulnerable for becoming victims of
human trafficking to learn how to protect themselves. It would also help to create positive
attitude over foreign employees from neighboring countries and women as a human being.

(4) The MSDHS and Ministry of Interior should provide shelter for victims of human
trafficking in each province. The shelter should be the first location for the victims to stay and
have social workers and psychologists to help them. The study found that a shelter like has
already existed but it needs some improvement to help the victims.

(5) The MSDHS should review and improve the manual for the multidisciplinary team to help
victims of human trafficking. This is to make it as a guideline for the team. The manual should
also be spread to other parts that involve with human trafficking to handle the issues
professionally and systematically. The research found that the multidisciplinary team which
include prosecutors, police offices, administrative officers, doctors, social workers,
psychologists, experts of law, representatives of Department of Employment, representatives
of Department of Labor Protection and Welfare, and the related organizations; have different
understanding over the definition of trafficking in persons as well as the victims of trafficking
in persons. This directly affects the victim screening process and to find the effective solutions
for trafficking in persons problems.

(6) The MSDHS should focus more on providing knowledge and information for migrant
labors. This is for the migrants to have enough knowledge to protect themselves from being
victims of human trafficking. There should be regulations that apply to migrant workers
instead of year-by-year policies and there should be amendment over the migrant labor
registration in which the migrants can check and proceed by themselves. This is to prevent the
works from being taken advantage from their employers. Workers should also be informed
about their labor rights. They should as well be encouraged to form a network for them to be
able to help each other. Apart from that, authorities should be trained to understand the
languages of these workers for better communications. There should be orientation for new
migrant workers in order for them to understand about working conditions in Thailand in the
workers’ own languages. Those who seemed to be vulnerable to be victims of human
trafficking should be specially paid attention, and both Thai and foreign workers should be
treated equally.

(7) The MSDHS, Ministry of Interior, and Royal Thai Police should work with civil society
organizations by creating a working network as these organizations have ability to be proactive
and know about the issues well. They usually have clear purpose and do not have to carry
responsibilities like governmental organizations.

(8) The Royal Thai Police must be strict regarding law enforcement on preventing and
combating human trafficking which include giving penalty to middlemen and employers who
ignore the worker registration or violate labor rights, arresting those who illegally act as
middlemen and provide illegal documents for Thai and foreign workers, and confiscating the
permit of factories that had committed illegal acts.

(9) The National Human Rights Committee should give priority to trafficking on persons as
the one of the first issues to find solutions. This is because human trafficking is serious human
rights violations. The committee should closely monitor the work of the government and
authorities without waiting for complaints. The committee can use the international legal
instruments and national law and regulations to independently monitor any human trafficking
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