Globalised slavery: how big supermarkets are selling prawns in supply chain fed by slave labour

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Buying shrimps at your local supermarket, walmart or grocery store may have contributed to slave work in Thailand. Workers rights are spelled abuse in Qatar.

Buying shrimps at your local supermarket, walmart or grocery store may have contributed to slave work in Thailand. Workers rights are spelled abuse in Qatar. Globalised slavery: how big supermarkets are selling prawns in supply chain fed by slave labour. This article will bring some information that may shock you.

The US has signalled its mounting concern over modern-day slavery in Thailand and Qatar after it downgraded both countries on its human trafficking watchlist following revelations of appalling maltreatment of migrant workers.

Thailand was relegated to the lowest rank in the state department’s Trafficking in Persons (TiP) report โ€“ meaning it is now considered no better than North Korea, Iran or Saudi Arabia in the way it treats workers and protects them from abuse. Qatar was demoted to a watchlist one rung above, and will join Thailand if it doesn’t improve its record in the coming years. Malaysia was also downgraded.

The American censure comes amid widespread criticism of Thailand and Qatar, following two Guardian investigations that exposed repugnant conditions of slavery in both countries.

“There cannot be impunity for those who traffic in human beings,” said John Kerry, the US secretary of state. “It must end.” Slavery, he said, “rips and tears at the fabric of the rule of the law”.

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