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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.
As we enter a new year, we do so having recently marked a significant milestone in the global fight against human trafficking: the 25th anniversary of both the UN Palermo Protocol and the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Adopted in 2000, these two frameworks reshaped how governments understand, prevent, and respond to modern slavery. Yet anniversaries are not only moments of celebration—they are moments of reckoning. A quarter-century on,
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