Final Review Sheet 1-2017 (1)

Responding to CITES• In appreciation of and in full compliance with CITES, on the 12th November 2015, Thailand returned 12 smuggled orangutansลงิ อรุ ังอตุ งั to Indonesia.

Conservation in practice• Current (2015) national law allows for ivory from domesticated Thai elephants to be sold legally. As an unintended consequence,**** large quantities of African ivory can be laundered through Thai shops. Only by closing the domestic trade in ivory can Thailand help eliminate the threat to African elephants. Thailand's ivory market is the largest in the world and trade is largely fuelled by ivory from poached African elephant's tusks that are smuggled into the country.

Chapter 18Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html• Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad.• Trafficking in persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights.• Almost every country in the world is affected by trafficking, whether as a country of origin, transit or destination for victims

Topic outlines• A. The Situation • Source • Transit • Destination • Internal Trafficking• B. Causes• C. The Thai Government • Prosecution • Protection • Prevention• D. International Cooperation• E. Recommendations

The Situation http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/thailand Thailand is a source,• transit, and destination country• for human trafficking. • ( including trafficking for purposes of labor& sexual exploitation)• It is a destination-side hub of exploitation in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, for both sex and labor exploitation

Thailand is a Source for Human Trafficking• Migrants, A greater risk of being• Ethnic minorities, trafficked than Thai na• And stateless people in Thailand• Thai men who migrate for low-skilled contract work and agricultural laborAre subjected to conditions of forced labor anddebt bondage as well

Causes• There are many causes of human trafficking inThailand Statelessness Many Povertyargue: its Lack of relative educationaffluence Awareness in theGreater Sub- Employment Dysfunctional Mekong Region. Family

Internal Trafficking• ***Thailand is a country with internal trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation, and labor trafficking.• ****Ethnic minorities and women and girls from the northern HillTribes are especially vulnerable due to their lack ofUNESCOcitizenship. officials assert that lack of legalstatus is the single greatest risk factor for trafficking or otherexploitation of highlanders.• ***There is also an issue of rural-to-urban trafficking, where ethnic Thais are trafficked from the relatively poor areas of Chiang Rai, Phayao and Nong Khai to urban and tourist areas.11

Internal Trafficking• While it is widely believed there are fewer incidences of Thai citizens forced into prostitution today than in past years,• *****children from poor families remain vulnerable เสี่ยง, and there are some incidences of Thai parents who force their children into prostitution.

The Thai Government• The government took step including tougher regulations and new anti- trafficking measures to curb human trafficking and abusive labor practices for migrant workers.

Prevention• The government collaborates with international organizations and NGOs to raise awareness on trafficking among migrant workers, targeting high-risk industries and populations within Thai society.• NGOs confirmed that awareness of human trafficking and labor rights grew, both among these high-risk populations and government officials.

Prevention• Further, the Thai Government is working with the Government of Burma to open a Burmese government office in Thailand,• in the hopes of reducing the need for some undocumented Burmese workers to return to Burma, and thus making them less at risk to being exploited.•

Prevention• However, there are several Thai policies that also put Burmese and other migrants at greater risk for trafficking. These include:• ****The government’s Nationality Verification and Granting an Amnesty to Remain in the Kingdom of Thailand to Alien Workers Program binds Burmese and other migrant workers’ immigration status to Thai employers, effectively leaving workers without legal recourse or protection from forced labor.

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Prevention• *****The government’s process to legalize migrant workers includes associated fees which, in addition to costs imposed by poorly regulated and unlicensed labor brokers, increase the vulnerability of migrant workers to trafficking and debt bondage.

Prevention• ****The government announced plans in 2010 to collect additional funds from migrant workers undergoing nationality verification in order to underwrite the cost of deporting undocumented migrants; if enacted (make into Law), this could further increase workers’ debt.

Prevention• The government reportedly disbursed $200,000 from its fund to assist trafficking victims and finance anti- trafficking activities in 2010,• abut this is only small portion of the total fund value.

Factors preventing victims from participating in Thai legal process • 4. While the government generally encourages victims to participate in the investigation and prosecution of their traffickers,• it provides limited incentives for victims to do so. *** High legal costs,********* ****Language , bureaucratic, and immigration barriers, ****fear of retribution by traffickers,************ **** distrust of Thai officials, *********** ****slow legal processes, ************ ***and the financial needs of victims effectively prevent most victims from participating in the Thai legal process.

International CooperationThe Thai government works with international agencies and NGOs and foreign governments to combat human trafficking. Thai International NGOs ForeignGovernment Agencies Governments combat human trafficking

The Thai Government• For these reasons, the Thai Government was placed in Tier 2 in the 2011 U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report) for not fully complying with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking (Tier 2 Watch List — the second to lowest ranking, which Thailand has occupied for three years.)• but making significant efforts to do so. This marks Thailand’s second consecutive year on Tier 2.17.

Recommendations• The U.S. Department of State recommends that the Thai government enact (make it into law) the following measures in its 2011 TIP Report:• ***Enhance ongoing efforts to identify victims of trafficking among vulnerable populations, in particular undocumented migrants and deportees;• ***Increase efforts to investigate, prosecute, and convict both sex and labor trafficking offenders;

Recommendations• ***Improve efforts to investigate, prosecute, and convict officials engaged in trafficking-related corruption;• ***Ensure that offenders of fraudulent labor crericmruinitaml epnetnaaltnieds;(onf oftocracpeidtallapbuonrishrmeceenivt eไมใ่ ชsโ่tทrษinปgระeหnาtร ชีวติ )• ****Improve labor inspection standards and procedures to better detect workplace violations, including instances of trafficking;

Recommendations• ***Improve implementation of procedures to allow all adult trafficking victims to travel, work, and reside outside of shelters;• ***Provide legal alternatives to the removal of trafficking victims to countries in which they would face retribution or hardship;• ***Implement mechanisms to allow adult foreign trafficking victims to reside in Thailand;

Recommendations• ****Make greater efforts to educate migrant workers on their rights, their employers’ obligations to them, legal recourse available to victims of trafficking, and how to seek remedies against traffickers;• ****Improve efforts to regulate fees and brokers associated with the process to legalize migrant workers in order to reduce the vulnerability of migrants to human trafficking; and• ****Increase anti-trafficking awareness efforts directed at employers and clients of the sex trade.

Chapter 19 & 21Becoming A New Person & Self-Esteem

Topics Outline• A. The story of an eagle» Story of an eagle See from you tube» Eagle rebirth» The chained eagle• B. We need change and Building Good habits» ( On my thump drive)• C. Self-esteem» Definition» Difference between healthy & unhealthy self-esteem» Increasing one’s self-esteem

Becoming a new person: The Chained eagle• Get rid of a bad habit. Any bad habits can be got rid of if you have the will to do it.• The chains of bad habits are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.• To change yourself is something you can’t do in your own power and strength. If you want this change, it’s necessary for you to ask Jesus to help.

Becoming a new person: Rebirth of eagle• Eagle can live up to 70 years.• Critical period= 40• To live up for another 30 years= accept to live in painful process for having a new beak, talons, and feathers ( 150 days)

The Chained Eagle• A man once owned an eagle, and for many years kept him chained to a stake.• Every day the eagle walked around and around that stake, and over time wore a rut in t.• He was free-but he had forgotten how to fly! He flip- flopped to the ground, walked back over to his old rut, and started walking in circles like he had for years.• No chain and shackle held him, just the habit! he ground.



What we learnt from the chained eagle: We need change.• “ Any bad habit can be got rid of if you have the will to do it. ““The chains of bad habits are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”• “To change yourself is something you can’t do in your own will power and strength. If you want this change, it's necessary for you to ask Jesus to help.”



We need change and BUILDING GOOD HABITS

We need change and BUILDING GOOD HABITS• 1.Believe it or not, they used to build bridges by first flying a kite from one side of the river or gorge to the other.

We need change and BUILDING GOOD HABITS• 2. Someone on the opposite side caught the kite and tied a little thicker, stronger string to the end of the kite string, and the men who had sent the kite over pulled the new, thicker string back across

We need change and BUILDING GOOD HABITS• 3. The teams on each side kept repeating the process, next with an even stronger string, then a cord, then a thin rope, then a thicker rope, and so on. Eventually they could pull a small steel cable across, then a heavier one, until finally they had a cable across the expanse that was strong enough to support them and their tools and materials.• And it all started with one tiny kite string!

How long does it take to build a good habit? 6 weeks

Self-esteem• Definition• It is confidence in one's own worth or abilities.• Being proud of oneself and one’s dignity,• it is also self-respect and faith in oneself.• It is made up of the thoughts, feelings, and opinions one has about oneself• We should learn to turn the inner voices (inner critics) into our own benefit, enhancing our own self-esteem.

Increasing one’s Self-esteem• Accept the reality and the totality of oneself• Realize one’s strengths and accept limitations.• Control one’s emotions.• Forgive oneself.• Adhere firmly to ethical principles and values.• Be prudent in receiving remarks.• Get help from others.• Exercise, healthy diet, relax and rest

Ways to enhance one’s Self-esteem• 1. Accept the reality and the totality of oneself.• 2. Realize one’s strengths and accept limitations• 3. Control one’s emotions.• 4. Forgive oneself.• 5. Adhere firmly to ethical principles and values.• 6. Be prudent in receiving remarks.•• 7.Get help from others.• 8. Exercise, healthy diet, relax and rest:•

Example1• Listen carefully to the inner voice in you or the loud spoken words of people around you that criticize or praise you. Some are insincere in their praise and criticism. Others are honest. Ignore the insincere remarks. Take constructive criticisms for correction and further development.

Example 2• An adult will carry with oneself height, size, sex, colour of the skin, conspicuous feature of race (Chinese, Indian, European, American, etc., or mixture of these), one’s nationality, place of birth, one’s religion. Some of these realities can be changed. However, for the unchangeable, be happy with them. They can be one’s valuable assets.

Chapter 20The Problem Of Suffering

Topic Outlines• A. The Butterfly Story• B. Why God Allows Pain and Suffering? – B.1 Does God exist? » B.1.1 The Story of a customer and a barber – B.2. Pope John Paul II’s Answer to the Problem of Pain » B.2.1 An Inescapable Feature » B.2.2 Charity » B.2.3Humility » B.2.4 Transformation » B.2.5 Punishment » B.2.6 A Reason to Live

A. The Butterfly Story

A. The Butterfly Story• We all need to experience challenges and difficulties in our lives.• If God would allow us to live our lives without obstacles, we would be weak.(we could never gain the strength of character he need us to have in order to succeed in life.)

A. The Butterfly Story• Without pain, suffering, and challenges, we could never fly. ( These required for growing up)• “ I asked for strength, and god gave me difficulties to make me strong.”• “I asked for courage, and God gave me obstacles to overcome.”• “I asked for love, and God put people with problems in my path for me to help.”

B. Why does God allow pain and suffering?• Why do some innocent children suffer?• Why must I suffer?• Why are honest people persecuted?• Does God really exist?• Why does God allow pain and suffering?