Migrant workers sort fish and seafood at a port in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand. Photo: Reuters Thai fishing boat owners who trap workers on board ships and withhold wages often do not realize that is modern slavery, so authorities must ramp up their policing efforts, advocates say. Research shows many fishing operators are [...]
Photo: Federal Express This month, FedEx Corp. is launching an educational training program on Truckers Against Trafficking for team members at FedEx Freight, its less-than-truckload unit. Truckers Against Trafficking is a non-profit that educates, equips, empowers and mobilizes members of the trucking and travel plaza industry to combat human trafficking. The education program [...]
Before March 2015, when the Associated Press exposed appalling human rights abuses aboard Thai fishing boats, few Americans gave much thought to the evils that might lurk behind their fried calamari and tilapia fillets. The AP article, “Slaves May Have Caught the Fish You Bought,” detailed how Burmese migrants were lured with the promise of decent [...]
Officials at a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in rural Georgia locked an immigrant detainee in solitary confinement last November as punishment for encouraging fellow detainees to stop working in a labor program that ICE says is strictly voluntary. Shoaib Ahmed, a 24-year-old who immigrated to America to escape political persecution in [...]
Human Trafficking in Rohingya Refugee Camps In light of the ‘repatriation agreement’ signed between Myanmar and Bangladesh, the 620,000 recent Rohingya refugees who have been living in Cox’s Bazar for the past few months will be allowed to return to the Northern Rakhine state or ‘to a safe and secure place nearest to it’ of [...]
At last month’s Thomson Reuters Anti-Slavery Summit the audience was spellbound by the stories, and images, of humanitarian photographer Lisa Kristine. Sarah Lazarus spoke to her about her work. BY SARAH LAZARUS Read the full article on Post Magazine
Here's a site that's making change! Their mission is to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour. Check out the staggering statistics for the Global Estimates of Modern Day Slavery.
Slavery is still happening all over the world, and this Mill Valley photographer has documented it in her new book. Read more on marinmagazine.com
