Thai Women of Tomorrow Project

Address:
Thai Women of Tomorrow Project
Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Chiang Mai
50000
Thailand
Contact Information
If calling from Thailand:
Tel: 053 892 788
Fax: 053 892 789
If calling from overseas:
Tel: +66 53 892 788
Fax: +66 53 892 789
Website
http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~thiesmey/tw.html
Activities
A trafficking prevention project under Chiang Mai University focusing on reducing child prostitution and related problems in four Northern Thai provinces: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang, and Payao.

Dean of Social Sciences Chiang Mai University Project Description: The project assists young rural women in Northern Thailand to gain further education and avoid the sex industry. The project distributes information on the hazards of Aids, sexual abuse, and financial liability that accompany commercial sex work, and encourages young girls and women to seek higher education and better jobs. Methods used are traditional information dissemination.

The project assists young rural women in Northern Thailand to gain further education and avoid the sex industry. The project distributes information on the hazards of AIDS, sexual abuse, and financial liability that accompany commercial sex work, and encourages young girls and women to seek higher education and better jobs. Methods used are traditional information dissemination through regular meetings at rural schools; printed materials; videos; and questionnaires.1

In the northern provinces of Thailand, ILO/IPEC funded the development of a technical resource center for campaigns against child prostitution, in cooperation with Thai Women of Tomorrow and Chiang Mai University.2 The center’s functions are:

Providing information about child prostitution and child abuse
Promoting and coordinating a network of governmental and nongovernmental organizations and private agencies
Creating and using effective local media to change attitudes regarding child prostitution and child abuse
Promoting and supporting existing education and training institutes to adopt a comprehensive intervention module for
combatting child prostitution and child abuse
Undertaking an evaluation of on-going interventions and building academic support for network members.
1 http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~thiesmey/tw.html
2 www.unescap.org/wid/04widresources/03traffick/ipec.pdf