Thailand's government has pledged to crack down on human trafficking after the US state department criticised the Southeast Asian country in its latest report on worldwide human trafficking for doing little to address the problem.
Many migrant workers, who mostly come from neighbouring Myanmar, end up in Thai factories where they are forced to work under appalling conditions and suffer from serious abuse. Many of them are victims of human trafficking, rights groups say.
Some of them are victims of debt bondage, meaning they are bought and sold and forced to work to pay police fees and debts to the companies that traffick them.
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay visited Kanchanaburi, in western Thailand, where he spoke to a worker who fled a fruit-processing plant.
There are allegations of human trafficking at this factory of Vita, which had a high-profile client - the US retailer Walmart.
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