Discussion about entry: Help stop child prostitution – Development and Education Program for Daughters and Communities

Dear Gita,

Thanks for your comment. You are right, it is not possible to stop child prostitution without intervention at policy level. Given the illegal and fluid nature of trafficking, neither the government nor NGO’s can be effective by themselves. Coordinated and complementary efforts are essential within countries and across borders. In December 2006, the Thai government opened the Children and Family Home of Chiang Rai, the first government shelter in Chiang Rai province to respond to victims of human trafficking. This government shelter was opened after four years of successful cooperation between the government and MRICRH, a project of DEPDC begun in 2002 with a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hill Tribe Development and Welfare Center of Chiang Rai. The MRICRH responds to this need for GO-NGO coordination and provides trafficking victims with services and rights as they are entitled by law.