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Article

6 Mar 2014

Author:
Dean Irvine, CNN

Slaves at sea: Report into Thai fishing industry finds abuse of migrant workers [Cambodia, Myanmar]

…According to a new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), a British-based human rights charity, the Thai fishing and seafood industry...involves considerable exploitation of trafficked migrant workers, most from neighboring Myanmar and Cambodia…A group of 14 men from Myanmar rescued from boats...told the EJF of 20 hour work days with little or no pay and beatings at the hands of Thai crew members. According to reports from the EJF some even witnessed murder, with bodies being thrown overboard as causally as unwanted catch…The rise in forced labor on board Thai fishing boats is tied to growing global demand for cheap seafood and diminishing fish stocks, say the EJ…"We have documented evidence of marked police cars transporting trafficked victims who are then sold onto boats as slaves," said [the founding director of EJF]…