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This article also highlights the human-trafficking happening on these illegal fleets. Disturbing intersection of inhumane practices.

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The Association for Professional Observers maintains a list of observer deaths and disappearances [1] that is also disturbing.

[1]: https://www.apo-observers.org/observer-safety/misses/

Slavery, presumably?

Apparently the vast majority of crews on normal legal global logistics shipping vessels are Phillipino. I wonder how many of the Chinese shark-murder slaver vessels are too.

The Global Slavery Index has estimates and as the article about China's fleets mentions North Korea, that hellish pit is obviously on #1 with >10% of the population in modern slavery https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/methodology/me...

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