Curbing a 10 billion-dollar-a-year business is a painfully ambitious goal, but TIPinAsia is determined to restrain the trade in human traffic. The recently launched website functions both as an educative tool — it outlines the laws regarding human trafficking in Cambodia, Thailand, and East Timor — and as a channel of communication that will link agencies that work on behalf of victims of human trafficking, with the ultimate goal of prosecuting traffickers in addition to raising awareness about the issue.  

With the United Nations’ assertion that human trafficking has been on the rise for the past decade, TIPinAsia will be helping to stem the flow of the ever-increasing tide of human traffic.

Mimi Hanaoka