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15 Sep 2015

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Child Workers in Thai Seafood Industry Face Hazards, Injuries: Report

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Children employed in Thailand’s seafood processing industry are more exposed to workplace hazards such as fire or gas, and are twice as likely to be injured than minors working in other industries, experts said…Almost 20 percent of children in the seafood industries reported workplace injuries, compared to 8.4 percent in other workplaces, the International Labor Organization and the Asia Foundation experts said in a new report…Migrant children are disproportionately exploited because Thailand’s seafood industry, with exports valued at US$3 billion a year, relies heavily on cheap labor, mostly from Burma…