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International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders Launched
Date: 30 June - 3 July 2004Venue: Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) recently launched the International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) to bring attention to WHRD concerns and their need for protection.

Thai Airways to Air UNODC PSAs
Thai Airways is the latest partner to join hands with UNODC in the fight against human trafficking.

Thai Government Action Meeting on Human Trafficking
The first Thai Government Workshop on Human Trafficking, organised by the Office of the Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, the Royal Thai Police, and by the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (UNIAP) was held in Chiang Rai, Thailand on 13-14 May 2004.

World Vision Launches Sex Tourism Prevention Program
At the start of March 2004, World Vision launched a Child Sex Tourism Prevention Program in Cambodia, Costa Rica, Thailand and the United States.

US-ASEAN Dialogue 29-30 January 2004
The ASEAN-US dialogue relationship began in 1977.

ARCPPT Cambodia Issues Gender - Criminal Justice System Report
The Asia Regional Cooperation to Prevent People Trafficking (ARCPPT), an AusAID supported project implemented in collaboration with the Governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Burma, and Thailand, seeks to strengthen the criminal justice process relating to trafficking in persons.

ILO, Yunnan Province, China, Launched New Project Phase
The Chinese province of Yunnan, in co-operation with the International Labor Organization (ILO), has launched a new phase of a five-year project to combat trafficking of children and women in the Mekong Sub-Region of Asia in July 2003.

Thailand's Memorandum of Understanding with Cambodia
On May 31, 2003, Thailand and Cambodia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Cooperation to Eliminate Trafficking in Children and Women to provide a legal framework for joint efforts in dealing with the problem.

Thailand's Memorandum of Understanding with Cambodia
On May 31, 2003, Thailand and Cambodia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Cooperation to Eliminate Trafficking in Children and Women to provide a legal framework for joint efforts in dealing with the problem.

Thai Government Signs MoUs with NGOs
On March 24, 2003 the Secretary Generals of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Public Health, the Attorney General, Commissioner General of the Royal Thai Police and representatives from 28 Non-Governmental Organizations, including the National Council on Youth and Child Development, representatives of the Thai Coordinating Body on Trafficking of Children, the Thai Network to Assist and Protect the Rights of Trafficked Women and Children, and Child Rights Projection Foundation joined together to sign three National Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) relating to the protection and assistance to women and children victims of trafficking.