SAMUT SONGKHRAM, 26 July 2014 – United States embassy officials visited the one-stop service center for migrant workers registration in Samut Sakhon on Friday to follow up on Thai authorities’ efforts to curb human trafficking and labor rights problems that the US cited as reasons for its downgrade of Thailand in its annual Trafficking in Persons report.
Ms. Miriam L. Award, Deputy Economic Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Thailand, was briefed by officials at the center about the registration process and the progress of the registration of migrant workers. Samut Sakhon Governor Athit Bunyasophat was on hand to explain each of the procedures and to receive feedback. Afterwards, he expressed the belief that the US representative’s first-hand account of the one-stop registration center would benefit Thailand.
Since June 30, more than 50,000 migrant workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia have registered with authorities through the newly created one-stop registration centers nationwide.
