Hundreds of Rohingya migrants have been trafficked through jungle camps and sold to Thai fishing vessels as slaves, a Guardian investigation has found. Survivors have described being sold to crew boats that service Thailand’s $7.8bn seafood industry, where they worked to produce seafood sold across the world. The investigation follows last year’s revelations about slavery present in the supply chains of Thai prawns sold in supermarkets in the UK and elsewhere.
A global framework on how to fund the ambitious sustainable development goals has been agreed on, but not all parties are pleased with the outcome. Global leaders and civil society groups gathered in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, for the financing for development summit, where tax was the biggest bone of contention. Rich nations were accused of lobbying to block poorer countries from gaining access to decision-making on global tax standards.
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- Ebola casts a shadow over maternal health in Sierra Leone
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DfID to pump £735m into investment arm for private sector projects
- Hundreds of young people trafficked into door-to-door sales in the US
- Bangladesh volunteers learn to make a life-or-death difference in a disaster
- Mental healthcare 50 times more accessible in wealthy countries
Opinion
What’s the best way to measure child poverty? Keetie Roelen argues that the UK’s move from focusing on family income to “root causes” of poverty could fail to provide the full picture. In global health, James Whiting shared his view on how to wipe malaria off the map, claiming that the goal of near zero deaths from the disease was in sight. Women’s rights campaigners Ana Ines Abelenda and Nerea Craviotto shared their views on the financing development summit, claiming delegates failed to put their money where their mouth was on gender equality.
Multimedia
Video: Thai fishing industry turns to trafficking: ‘We witnessed girls being raped again and again’
Video: The Dominicans of Haitian descent denied a right to nationality
Video: Italian mafia’s cocaine trafficking leaves trail of drug devastation among poor of Brazil
Pictures: Sierra Leone’s fight to reduce maternal mortality
What you said: top reader comment
On the piece, Former Chad dictator’s war crimes trial opens in Senegal , chukwuemeka onwuchekwa wrote:
This marks a huge step forward for the subregion and especially for Senegal. Senegal has effectively positioned itself as a key political and diplomatic force. If this trial is pulled off effectively then this is a clear message to the world that Africa can indeed handle itself.
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