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ASEAN urged to provide implementing guidelines to protect Southeast Asian migrant fishers and ratify C-188
The ASEAN Declaration on the Placement and Protection of Migrant Fishers is an important first step towards eradicating forced labour and human rights abuses in the fishing industry, but the declaration needs to be actualised in order to make a difference. Together with Team 9, we want ASEAN to move the discussion forward and provide…
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Tricked and Failed
I could only hope that the Indonesian government finally hears our cries for help and acts on our behalf to strictly enforce laws to end the cycle of abuse. Don’t let any more migrant fishers fall victim to injustice. It should end with me.
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Roadmap For Recommendations For the Ratification of Work in Fishing Convention, 2007
In June 2007, the International Labour Organization (ILO) created the Work in Fishing Convention (No. 188). The ILO C-188 was aimed at ensuring decent working conditions for fishers aboard fishing…
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Greenpeace on ASEAN’s historic declaration on migrant fishers protection
The declaration is considered a milestone especially for developing countries in Southeast Asia like Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines which are considered the world’s biggest “supplier” of migrant fishers as ship crew to the global fishing industry. This victory is not only for migrant workers rights activists, but also for all Southeast Asian migrant fishers.
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The journey towards migrant workers’ protection in Southeast Asia
Efforts to protect migrant fishing workers is much like climbing in the Himalayas. Very high. Very tough. Very distant.
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How trustworthy are seafood brands…really?
For groups that have spent years monitoring and documenting human rights abuses in the seafood supply chain, it comes as no surprise that despite the claims and promises from seafood brands meant to instill consumer trust and confidence, that is not always the case.
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Investigation finds suspected human rights abuse by suppliers of major US and Taiwanese seafood company – Greenpeace
Major US seafood brand Bumble Bee and its Taiwanese owner, tuna trader FCF, are suspected to have illegal fishing and human rights abuse in its supply chain, according to a new investigative report by Greenpeace East Asia.
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“Don’t get trapped”: One worker’s warning about what really happens in the fishing industry
A fisher shares his story of forced labour in the high seas and how he's fighting back to help protect the rights of migrant workers in the industry.
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Indonesian migrant fishers declare victory in new regulation that ensures their protection and rights
Indonesian migrant fishers have welcomed the recently ratified regulation that ensures their rights, protection, and employment on board foreign fishing vessels - a significant milestone towards curbing illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and abuse within the industrial fishing industry.
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What’s keeping the unprofitable high seas fishing industry going? Simple: Forced Labour
As fish populations collapse and fishing vessels have to go further out at sea, transportation and refrigeration costs have increased. While these costs are fixed, labour costs are more flexible. This is especially true far out at sea, where isolation and lack of oversight render fishers – who are often migrants with few legal protections…