Source & Author: FIS.com Thailand hopes its status will be upgraded in the annual United States Trafficking in Persons report (TIP), as it has intensified prosecutions for human trafficking.
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4 Feb
2017
2017
Human rights
30 Jan
2017
2017
Source & Author: International Organisation for Migration A new government decree based in part on IOM’s ground-breaking research into human trafficking in the Indonesian fisheries will address chronic human rights abuses in the industry, the country’s Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) says.
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15 Jan
2017
2017
Source: Center for American Progress Authors: Trevor Sutton and Avery Siciliano Recent media investigations have revealed regular use of forced labor in the international seafood supply chain. Here’s how the U.S. government and the private sector should respond to curtail these abuses.
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15 Dec
2016
2016
Source: The Guardian Author: Kate Hodal Report alleges exposure of human rights abuses including trafficking and labour exploitation has simply prompted move to more remote waters.
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28 Nov
2016
2016
Source and Author: Environmental Justice Foundation “The captain shouted at me; saying that he could kill me, that he doesn’t care and that I am only Burmese.” Tun Thet Soe – escaped victim of trafficking.
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24 Nov
2016
2016
Source & Author: EFJ The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) welcomes the news that the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 188 will come into force next year, providing a major boost to the fight against forced labour on fishing vessels across the world.
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21 Nov
2016
2016
Source and Author: UN News Centre Condemning illegal fishing and labour exploitation in the world’s oceans, the United Nations agriculture and labour agencies, joining forces with the Vatican, underlined today the need for collective, global action to end labour and human rights abuse along the entire fisheries value chain.
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4 Nov
2016
2016
Source & Author: European Parliament News A delegation of the Committee on Fisheries of the European Parliament visited Bangkok over the past week in order to obtain a first-hand experience of Thailand’s achievements in fighting against Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing and in protecting migrant workers employed by the fishing fleet.
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18 Oct
2016
2016
Source & Author: EJF EJF’s Executive Director Steve Trent met with Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan to discuss the reforms by the Royal Thai Government (RTG) to address IUU fishing and associated human trafficking and labour abuse.
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16 Oct
2016
2016
Source: The Maritime Executive Author: MarEx Alongside eight other internationally recognized NGOs, the U.K.-based charity Human Rights at Sea has made a submission to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, John Knox, regarding the continued exploitation of fisheries workers at sea.
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