The situation regarding human trafficking and slave labor in Thailand’s fishing industry “is now severe” and the country is taking action to tackle it, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has told ...

While forced labor still exists throughout the world, one place where it’s especially pervasive is the South China Sea — especially in the Thai fishing fleet, according to a 2016 investigation by the ...

Within six months of the AP’s initial report, the government of Indonesia, whose coast Thai vessels routinely trawled, had ordered the release of more than 2,000 enslaved fishermen and arrested at ...

Despite international pressure, human rights abuses in Thailand’s fishing industry persist on ships active in remote, unpoliced waters, a new Greenpeace report claims. In a year-long investigation ...