Global Labor Justice (GLJ), an international group that fights against human rights abuses, issued a statement on Thursday taking issue with the US State Department's Tier 1 ranking of Taiwan in its 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, released a week ago
It's the 12th consecutive year that Taiwan has maintained the top rating despite mentions of numerous infractions in the report itself.
GLJ argued that Taiwan should be downgraded to Tier 2 status, per the recommendations made in April by the Seafood Working Group, a coalition of 30 labor, human rights and environmental organizations.
"Taiwan's distant water fishing industry has been implicated in numerous investigations and reports for labor trafficking and the government has failed to sufficiently address this problem," GLJ said in a statement, noting how, in 2020, Taiwan was added to the US Department of Labor's List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor for fish products [...]
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