NGO Identifies Failures by Thai Government to Meaningfully Address Slave Labor in Thai Fishing Industry; Demonstrates the Need for Legislation Implementing the Port State Measures Agreement
Earlier this week, the Environmental Justice Foundation (“EJF”) published a briefing paper (“Broken Promises: Why Thailand should stay on Tier 3 in the 2015 US Trafficking in Persons report”) identifying numerous shortcomings in the government of Thailand’s response to documented labor abuse in the Thai fishing industry. Specifically, the briefing paper documented additional incidents of forced labor on Thai fishing […]