20 Mar 2017

…The Committee encourages the Government to continue to pursue its efforts to combat trafficking in persons, particularly with regard to migrant workers in the fishing sector…

…[T]he Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure that the confiscation of identity documents is prohibited by law, to investigate such abuses and to punish those responsible who are in breach of the law…

…[T]he Committee encourages the Government to continue to strengthen its efforts to address the non-payment of wages, including by taking prompt action to ensure the effective application in practice of the 2014 Ministerial Regulation. It requests the Government to ensure that employers face appropriate sanctions for the non-payment of wages, and to provide information on the concrete measures taken in this regard…

…[T]he Government to ensure that the Anti-Trafficking Act, as amended, is effectively applied and that the appropriate sanctions are imposed on perpetrators…

…[T]he Committee urges the Government to continue to strengthen its efforts, in consultation with employers’ and workers’ organizations to enhance the living and working conditions of fishers, including by ensuring the effective implementation of the 2016 Ministerial Regulation…