Anti-trafficking laws under-enforced: NGO

4 July 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agriculture and fishing / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Human rights / Human trafficking / Law and judiciary / Social development
Adhoc / Anti-trafficking laws / compensation / Fiji / Fishing / fishing boats / Giant Ocean International Fishery Co. Ltd. / Human trafficking / impunity / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / labor / labour / Lin Yu Shin / Migrant Workers / migrant workers' rights / NGOs / nongovernmental organizations / slave labour / Thun Saray / trafficking

Rem Vannak remains in poor health after enduring about two years of 21-hour days working for no pay on a fishing boat in Fiji, where he was beaten when he complained.

Lin Yu Shin, who owns Giant Ocean – the company Vannak worked for that allegedly sold Cambodians for slave labour – now faces human trafficking charges after his arrest in May. But according to a new report from rights group Adhoc, Yu Shin’s case is a rarity, not because of his crime, but because the state is prosecuting him. …

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