Groups Urge Thailand to Step Up Action to Protect Foreign Fishermen

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Migrant workers sort fish and seafood unloaded from a fishing ship at a port in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, Jan. 22, 2018// Reuters

 

Nontarat Phaicharoen and Mariyam Ahmad
Bangkok and Pattani, Thailand

 

Advocacy groups representing foreign workers in Thailand’s seafood industry called on the government Tuesday to ensure that employment contracts are made transparent, and to act to prevent workplace exploitation or abuses aboard Thai-owned fishing boats.

 

A new survey by the Fishers’ Rights Network found that about nine out of 10 foreign migrants working on fishing boats in Thailand had not had their contract translated or explained in a language they can understand. Tens of thousands of migrants from neighboring countries, including Myanmar and Cambodia, work in Thailand’s fishing sector.

 

At an online news conference where survey results were presented, the network and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) urged Bangkok to do much more to implement Convention No. 188 (C188) of the International Labor Organization. The convention, which came into force in November 2017, aims to shield employees in the seafood industry from abuses or exploitation.

 

Full story: https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/fishers-rights-06292021145304.html

 

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