Refugee children in Bangkok, Jakarta face trafficking
23/6/2018 16:16
A lack of legal protections is putting refugee children in Bangkok and Jakarta at heightened risk of trafficking and forced labour.
More than 20,000 refugees live in the Thai and Indonesian capitals, many of them children, and neither country is a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, which spells out legal obligations to protect refugees.
That means they are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse and also makes them afraid to report violations for fear of arrest or deportation, said Save the Children's Ratirose Supaporn ahead of the release of a report in Bangkok on Saturday.
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