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Thailand

Department of Social Development and Welfare - The Bureau of Anti-Trafficking in Women and Children

Address

Department of Social Development and Welfare
Bureau of Anti-Trafficking in Women and Children
Sun Tower Building
123 Vibhavadee Rungsit Road
Ladyoa, Chatuchak 10900
Thailand

Contact Information

If calling from Thailand:

Tel: 02 612 8888
Fax: 02 612 8950

If calling from overseas:

Tel: +66 2 612 8888
Fax: +66 2 612 8950

Website

http://www.dsdw.go.th/index.php

Email

dsdw@dsdw.go.th

Activities

The Department of Social Development and Welfare is the principal government agency that provides welfare services to needy and distressed people, including trafficked women and children, throughout the country. The welfare services offered are remedial, preventive, curative and developmental in nature.

The Bureau of Anti-Trafficking in Women and Children

The role and responsibility of the Bureau of Anti-Trafficking in Women and Children is to serve as a focal point for the co-ordination among the networks of concerned agencies for the protection and welfare of victims of trafficking of women and children. It is also charged with the responsibility to conduct relevant studies and analyses of means for preventing human trafficking and to provide welfare assistance, protection, and vocational development for women and children who are victims of human trafficking.

Other responsibilities are to promote the implementation of national laws, international conventions and declarations relating to women and child welfare, protection against violence and human trafficking and to promote adoption placement for children.