Muhammad Syafi’i remembers screaming in pain as hot cooking oil splashed across his stomach and dripped down his legs, his wet clothing sticking to his torched skin as it began to bubble and swell.

As dawn breaks on calm days, hundreds of fishermen set sail in their unusual rafts, known as “corchos” (or corks), along the ...

This is the first known case of fishing boat slavery brought against a US ... retrieve the ship’s catch – a common process in deep-sea fishing known as transshipment – leaving the men ...