Tag: Labour Rights
Thailand failing to tackle fishing industry slavery, says rights group
Environmental Justice Foundation says progress on eliminating human trafficking in Thai fishing ‘wholly inadequate’
Kate Hodal | Wednesday 18 February 2015 11.59 GMT
Thailand has made wholly inadequate progress in its efforts to eliminate human trafficking in its multi-billion dollar fishing industry, and has failed to combat both endemic corruption and...
Nestle accused of using Thailand’s slave-caught fish in cat food
Swiss food giant Nestle is being sued in the United States for allegedly knowingly allowing its Fancy Feast cat food to contain fish from a Thai supplier that uses slave labour.
Friday, Aug 28, 2015
NEW YORK - Swiss food giant Nestle is being sued in the United States for allegedly...
UN calls on Cambodia to address land and labor disputes
Cambodia’s rapid economic growth over the past decade has also intensified problems such as forced evictions and land grabs. The UN’s envoy to the country has called on the government to urgently tackle the issues.
Cambodia’s rapid economic growth over the past decade has also intensified problems such as forced...
Plantation workers in Malaysia abused reports WSJ
Malaysia ranks unfavourably in US’ Trafficking of Persons Report, 2014.
FMT Reporters | July 27, 2015
KUALA LUMPUR: Unsuspecting migrant workers brought in by human traffickers are being used as labourers in certain palm oil plantations in Malaysia, producer of 40 per cent of the world’s palm oil supply, the Wall...
Work accidents claim 600 lives each year in Vietnam
Around 600 people are killed in work-related accidents every year around the country, but local authorities say they cannot do much to prevent these tragedies due to their limited resources, local media reported on Monday.
Thanh Nien News
HO CHI MINH CITY - Tuesday, July 28, 2015 14:12
Around 600 people are...
Migrants processing Thai chicken exports ‘abused, exploited’
Violence, child labour, salary cuts among complaints by Cambodian, Myanmar migrants
6 Nov 2015 at 11:28
WRITER: THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION AND BANGKOK POST
LONDON - Migrants processing Thai chicken for its biggest export market, Europe, face widespread abuse by their employers, partly because foreign auditors have focused on food safety rather than...
President Jokowi signs Convention Against Human Trafficking
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, along with other leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), signed the ASEAN Convention Against Human Trafficking in Person (ACTIP), especially children and women here Saturday.
Sabtu, 21 November 2015 16:56 WIB | 726 Views
Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo, along...
Nestle says forced labour, abuse common among Thai seafood suppliers
Migrant workers toiling in Thailand’s seafood industry to supply Nestle SA and other global companies are subjected to hazardous, exploitative and degrading conditions in which some fishermen are even sold to other boat captains, a report commissioned by the company found.
Report concludes virtually all US, European companies buying seafood...
Malaysia maid pipeline resumes
Cambodia has signed a long-anticipated agreement to resume the legal flow of domestic workers to Malaysia, putting an end to a ban introduced more than four years ago amid reports of serious migrant abuses, which had led to multiple deaths.
Fri, 11 December 2015
Chhay Channyda and Alice Cuddy
Cambodia has signed...
Cambodia: Revise Union Law to Protect Worker Rights
The Cambodian government should revise the draft trade union law submitted to the National Assembly to ensure it fully protects all workers’ rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should promptly set a date for a “national workshop” with “all relevant parties,” to which it agreed after trade...
