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The global fishing industry is not only stripping our environment, it is abusing workers too…
Many are aware of the adverse environmental effects, but what about the effects on humans–abuse by low to no pay, control through fear, false promises, coercion, etc. The US and Environmental Justice Foundation–EJF–estimates that 90+ percent of all workers on Thai boats are illegal migrant workers from Cambodia and Burma and many are treated as slave labor.
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has unveiled what she calls “the most sweeping asylum reforms in modern times.” She plans to cut asylum numbers through strict deterrence measures, faster removals, and a small set of new “safe and legal” routes capped at only a few hundred people a year. Mahmood argues the plan will fix a broken system and stop people from paying criminal gangs. But anti-slavery campaigners say the proposals will worsen
| Wednesday November 19, 2025
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