Western Visayas as ground zero for migrant fisher exploitation
| dc.coverage.spatial | Western Visayas | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-07T07:23:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-07T07:23:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-11-22 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Western Visayas as ground zero for migrant fisher exploitation [Editorial]. (2025, November 22-23). Panay News, p. 6. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12174/17137 | |
| dc.description | Western Visayas is at risk of becoming a ground zero for the exploitation of migrant fishers, as bared by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) in a recent report by this paper. Of the 200 documented cases of forced labor and human trafficking recorded nationwide, 46 come from Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, and Iloilo — a big share that should alarm every provincial leader in the region. This situation is a product of long-standing vulnerabilities: rural poverty, aggressive recruitment tactics, weak regulatory oversight, and the normalization of abusive working conditions in commercial fishing. For many men in coastal barangays, joining distant-water fleets is one of the few available pathways to lift their families out of hardship. But instead of opportunity, too many end up trapped in conditions bordering on modern-day slavery — working 20 to 22 hours a day, deprived of food and clean water, unpaid for months, and even returning home sick or in coffins. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Panay News, Inc. | en |
| dc.relation.uri | https://www.panaynews.net/western-visayas-as-ground-zero-for-migrant-fisher-exploitation/ | en |
| dc.title | Western Visayas as ground zero for migrant fisher exploitation | en |
| dc.type | newspaperArticle | en |
| dc.citation.journaltitle | Panay News | en |
| dc.citation.firstpage | 6 | en |
| local.subject.classification | PN20251122_6 | en |
| dc.subject.agrovoc | human trafficking | en |
| dc.subject.agrovoc | compulsory labour | en |
| dc.subject.agrovoc | migrant labour | en |
| dc.subject.agrovoc | fisheries governance | en |
| dc.subject.agrovoc | coastal fishing communities | en |
| dc.subject.agrovoc | commercial fishing | en |
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