A new investigation by Amnesty International shows that a dozen casinos in Cambodia are directly linked to scamming compounds where torture, forced labour, child labour and human trafficking have taken place.

The District Court of Lapland has sentenced the CEO of a Finnish berry company to prison over 62 human trafficking cases involving Thai berry pickers. The workers have long sought justice and advocated for fair treatment and accountability from both berry companies and the Thai authorities.

The Cambodian government is deliberately ignoring a litany of human rights abuses including slavery, human trafficking, child labour and torture being carried out by criminal gangs on a vast scale in more than 50 scamming compounds located across the country, Amnesty International said in a new report published yesterday (26 June).

UN experts have demanded urgent action against large-scale trafficking of persons for forced labour forced criminality in scam compounds in Southeast Asia to protect victims and for countries to step up prevention efforts.

After a group of Rohingya refugees were found dead and injured in Thailand's Chumphon province last week, Human Rights Watch demanded that the Thai authorities conduct effective investigations into how this happened and provide survivors with medical care, asylum screening, and assistance.

A network of former Thai berry pickers has urged the government to suspend sending Thai workers to work as berry pickers in Sweden and Finland due to a pending investigation on a human trafficking case.

Thai berry pickers in Sweden and Finland have gathered in front of embassies, international organisations, and Thai government agencies to submit a petition, calling on relevant authorities to address human trafficking cases.

The Department of Special Investigation has reached an agreement to prosecute former ministers and senior executives of the Ministry of Labour for accepting bribes after they were found to be involved in sending Thai workers to be victims of human trafficking in Finland.

116 Thai people who were lured into human trafficking are currently under the protection of the governments of Thailand and neighbouring countries.

<p>The luring of Thais to work for scam organizations in neighbouring countries has become a regular tragedy in the age of pandemic lockdowns. In the past two years, thousands have been rescued only to become victims of the judicial system, while the traffickers escape free through loopholes.</p>

<p>Young Hmong wives are using TikTok to expose the slave-like conditions they have to ensure with their husbands&rsquo; families. Despite the bonds of kinship, their lives of unpaid labour and denied freedoms are seen by experts as crossing a red line under anti-human trafficking law.</p>

<p>The court on Monday denied bail to a policewoman who allegedly forced another woman, a low-ranking soldier, to work as her unpaid housemaid.&nbsp; The victim was reportedly subjected to years of violence, including beating and electric shocks.&nbsp;</p>