UN labour agency claims migrants employed on fishing vessels in Thai waters remain vulnerable to trafficking and forced labour despite previous warnings
Rights groups say Thailand’s upgraded standing in Trafficking in Persons report was politically motivated and ignores reported abuses in Thai fishing industry
Higher wages lure as many as 1 million Cambodians to Thailand each year, but without documentation they are easy targets for forced labour and exploitation
An investigation follows the trail of shrimp prepared by captive workers in squalid factories into the supply chain for food outlets in the US, Asia and Europe
Legal claim filed in California seeks injunction against US retailer to prevent sale of prawns produced by Thai supplier unless labelled a product tainted by slavery
Thailand’s failure to adopt adequate measures against slave labour and illegal fishing could prevent imports to EU market, says fisheries committee member
Hussein twice lived through the horror of Thai trafficking camps, sold by brokers to boats and working in terrible conditions at sea for four years without setting foot on land, in the service of the country’s multibillion-dollar seafood industry
EU investigators to decide on Thai fishing industry ban over slave labour