Verité Holds Seafood Trafficking Workshop in Bangkok: September 8, 2015

Asia, Compensation and Hours, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Health and Safety, Seafood, Southeast Asia

Migrant workers trafficked into the Thai fishing industry are sometimes described as ‘sold to the sea.’ These men, particularly work-seeking Burmese, often face a perfect storm of poverty-based need and debt bondage, extreme hardship, physical danger and isolation—corporate accountability lost in opaque supply chains, the regulatory dead space of international waters and scarce enforcement where laws apply.