Thailand leads Asia-Pacific in improving fishers lives

18 February 2019
AEC News Today
Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture
fishers / ILO / International Labour / IUU / Thai fishing

Thailand has become the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to ratify an international treaty designed to bolster the living and working conditions onboard commercial fishing vessels.

Thailand Labour Minister, Police General Adul Sangsingkeo, presented the signed Work in Fishing Convention No 188, 2007 (WIFC) to Guy Ryder, director-general of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, on behalf of the Thailand government at the end of last month.

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 John Le Fevre

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