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Article

16 Oct 2012

Author:
CNN

Shrimp exports to West tied to bonded labor [Bangladesh]

…[S]hrimp industry of Bangladesh. Chingri (shrimp) harvesting provides a highly illustrative case study of the very powerful ways in which environmental change can directly contribute to human trafficking, debt bondage, and forced labor exploitation, especially in the far reaches of the developing world...Hundreds of thousands of other farmers were forcibly displaced by the shrimp farms, because shrimp harvesting requires vastly fewer people than agricultural crops. Many of these peasants were trafficked to India and Southeast Asia for labor exploitation…Children are also heavily exploited by the shrimp sector of Bangladesh…processor stage is rumored to be replete with forced labor…roughly one out of every 57 shrimp consumed around the world are tainted by forced labor, bonded labor, or child labor from Bangladesh alone.