Thailand: Labor Abuses Persist in Fishing Fleets

Expand A young Burmese fisher sorts trash fish onboard a trawler in Laem Sing, Chantaburi, November 11, 2016. © 2016 Daniel Murphy for Human Rights Watch (Bangkok) – The Thai government has failed to address widespread labor rights abuses in Thailand’s fishing fleets, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to senior European Union officials. Human Rights Watch urged the EU to renew efforts for serious reforms of Thai policies and practices to effectively curtail forced labor and other abusive treatment of migrant fishing workers. “The Thai government’s reforms in the fishing industry…

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