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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in the Fishing Industry
Description: Forced labor and human trafficking in fisheries, albeit present in most parts of the world, have gone unnoticed for many years. Fishers at sea are out of sight for a long time, living in difficult and often inhumane conditions.But this problem does not affect just fishers: it is much more layered than we think and can impact most of our lives. How, exactly?Prof. Vasco Becker-Weinberg from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and author of “Time to Get Serious about Combating Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Fisheries,” explains further, in the fourth epis...