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â155 000 victims of modern slavery in SAâ 4 December 2020
Slave labour is growing without check in the fishing and agricultural sectors, resulting in widespread abuse of workers and human trafficking. A senior analyst on human trafficking and forced labour at the non-profit Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), Irina Bukharin, says fishermen working on distant-water fishing vessels, harvesting fishes on high seas, are more vulnerable to poor working conditions. âThey are especially vulnerable when they are at sea, unable to leave and less likely to have access to functioning means of communication with the outside world,â she says.