Report on Thai fishing finds 'slaves at sea' - CNN.com - 0 views
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The report found that one in six working on long-haul fishing boats did not decide to do so willingly, but acknowledged that the vast majority of workers in the sector are Thai and work voluntarily.
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To Tay's horror he was taken onto a fishing boat, despite no experience of fishing, and for the next six months was forced to work without pay.
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According to a 2013 U.S. State Department report, the Thai marine department and navy inspected 608 fishing vessels in 2012 but found no cases of trafficked workers, suggesting corruption and inadequate financial and human resources were allowing the continued exploitation of workers.
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Fishing boats have to make longer trips for less catch, making an already tough job harder and less attractive to domestic workers, as well as threatening profit margins for all involved in the industry.
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A group of 14 men from Myanmar rescued from boats last year 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.
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According to Tay, some of the girls in his group were sent to work in seafood processing factories, while the prettier ones were sent to brothels.
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the Thai fishing and seafood industry, worth $7 billion annually, involves considerable exploitation of trafficked migrant workers, most from neighboring Myanmar and Cambodia.
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smuggled across the border by labor brokers with the promise of a safe and stable job at the end of the journey.
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he and 12 others who made the journey with him were sold for around $430 each into jobs that made them virtual slaves.
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This definitely relates to the theme of mobility, because of the amount of resources and motion that go into smuggling illegal migrants into Thailand. Smuggling these people and lying to them about where they will go has almost become another industry of itself, due to the attraction of the profit of selling these people into slavery.
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"We have documented evidence of marked police cars transporting trafficked victims who are then sold onto boats as slaves,"
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and will drop to Tier 3 -- the lowest classification this year -- if it does not improve, something the EJF is calling for. The results could be the withdrawal of international financial aid.
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http://time.com/12628/human-trafficking-rife-in-thai-fishing-industry/ This link leads to an article that talks more about the cruelty and abuse in this industry that the captains of fishing vessels do to the migrants.
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critical of Thai attempts to clampdown on human trafficking in the country citing widespread corruption among law enforcement officials.
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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 EJF.