EXCLUSIVE-Hundreds of Thai workers found dying in South Korea with numbers rising Reuters 12/22/2020
By Nanchanok Wongsamuth and Grace Moon
BANGKOK/SEOUL, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The deaths of hundreds of mainly undocumented Thai migrant workers in South Korea have been uncovered by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, prompting the United Nations to call for inquiry into the fate of migrants known as little ghosts .
At least 522 Thais have died in South Korea since 2015 - 84% of whom were undocumented - found data from the Thai embassy in Seoul obtained via a freedom of information (FOI) request.
Four in 10 deaths were recorded as due to unknown causes while others were health related, accidents and suicides.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fishing vessels with crews of forced labourers behave in systematically different ways to the rest of the global fleet, according to a study purporting to be the first to remotely identify vessels potentially engaged in modern slavery.
Using satellite data, machine learning and on-the-ground expertise from human rights practitioners, U.S. researchers found up to 26% of about 16,000 industrial fishing vessels analysed were at high risk of using forced labour.
As many as 100,000 people are estimated to work on these high-risk vessels, many of whom are potential victims of forced labour. The study also showed where these high-risk vessels fished and the ports they visited.
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INSIGHT-The gig workers taking legal action to regain control of their data Reuters 12/16/2020
By Umberto Bacchi and Avi Asher-Schapiro
TBILISI/BERLIN, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - L ondon-based Uber driver Abdurzak Hadi is self-employed but says he is not his own boss as his workflow is determined by an obscure computer algorithm.
With the ride-hailing app deciding which - and how many - clients he gets each day, Hadi says he cannot optimise work and make more money, prompting him to join legal action against Uber that could set a precedent for all workers in the gig economy. I m blind. I don t know what s going on. I can only see what the app gives to me, said Hadi, 41.