Posts Tagged ‘human rights’
Protecting human rights
The recent investigations uncovering human rights abuses in the farmed seafood industry, most recently in the shrimp industry in India, are very unsettling to read. While we all agree that these abuses should have no place in any industry, the reality is starker and more uncomfortable.
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India’s extensive shrimp farming industry has been accused, in a new report, of large scale human rights abuses and unacceptable employment practices. The report has been published by the international human and labour rights organisation, Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL). It has carried out a three year long investigation into India’s multi-billion dollar shrimp aquaculture industry…
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