★ National Geographic, 11-25-2020 : Wildlife crimes and human rights abuses plague Taiwanese fishing vessels ...illegal dolphin catching, shark finning, and physical and verbal abuse ...  The assaults,  Indonesian worker Supri says, included his being locked in a freezer when he was still wet from having taken a shower, and being beaten, sprayed in the face with a hose, and shocked with an electric stun gun. In a recent report, the EJF said that abuse of crew members—along with illegal fishing for sharks and dolphins, among other species—is common in Taiwan’s distant-water fishing fleet, one of the world’s largest with more than a thousand vessels. China and Taiwan represent nearly 60 percent of the world’s distant-water fishing vessels. 野生動物犯罪和侵犯虐待人權折磨著台灣漁船工人...船員描述了非法捕撈海豚，鯊魚鰭以及身體和語言虐待的情況;  包括將他在洗澡後還很濕的時候鎖在冰箱裡，並遭到毆打、用水管對著臉面噴水，然後用電擊槍攻擊。EJF在最近的一份報告中說，在台灣的遠洋捕魚船隊中，普遍存在虐待船員的行為，包括非法捕撈鯊魚和海豚等，台灣是世界上最大的一群漁船，擁有一千多艘船隻。中國和台灣佔全球遠洋捕魚船隻近60％。 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/11/taiwan-fishing-vessels-perpetuate-illegal-fishing-human-rights-abuses/ 

★ US  state government - 2020 Trafficking in persons report, Jun. 2020
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根據最近五年的報導，販運人口 集團使外國與本地男女在台灣 被迫從事勞動和性交易，台灣婦女和兒童也被販運 去從事性交易。日益增加的趨勢是人口集團以吸毒成癮誘騙剝削國 內外婦幼。台灣 人口販運集團也越來越多地使用網 路，智能手機  smartphone apps, livestreaming, 和其他on line在線技術招募受害者，通常以兒童為目標，並 設法掩蓋他們的真實身份，以免受到查緝。他們還剝削殘疾人 士進行性交易( also exploit persons with disabilities in sex trafficking)。 也利用通過假結婚和欺詐的工作 契約，將中國和東南亞國家的婦女引誘到台灣，以進行性交易。許多受害者是印度尼西亞，菲律賓，泰國，越南的移工，也有少量的中國，柬埔寨和斯里蘭卡的 個體戶。台灣擁有700,000多名外國工人，其中大多數為了向經紀人支付經常高昂的招聘費和押金，一些外國工人承擔了巨額債務，經紀人或雇主將這些債務用作強迫手段。離開合同的工人（在任何特定時間將近50,000人）由於被剝奪了移民身份和獲得正規部門就業的機會而遭受販運的風險特別高... 台灣有200多所營利性大學已開始積極招募外國學生，尤其是印尼裔學生，隨後以教育機會為藉口，將他們置於剝削性的勞動條件中。這些學生通常在抵達之前不了解工作組成部分 ... (more than 200 forprofit universities in Taiwan have begun aggressively recruiting foreign students—particularly Indonesians—and subsequently placing them into exploitative labor conditions ...)

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★ 聯合報 12-7-2020: 移工宿舍宛如集中營  環境極不人道，是多年沉痾 https://udn.com/news/story/120940/5070384?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

★ 聯合報 11-30-2020: 「洗工」(將「家庭看護工」轉換成「工廠工」) 問題多  外籍看護政策應重訂，  市場亂象買工費、牛頭費漫天喊價，似已成為勞動部默默同意的人口販賣， 最迫切的是把重症失能家庭聘雇的外籍看護獨立管理 https://udn.com/news/story/7339/5053501?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2張姮燕／國際勞工暨雇主和諧企進協會顧問、大學教授

★ news: Minneapolis Star Tribune 8-20-2020: US halts imports linked to Taiwan-based fishing vessel ; 中時新聞網 8-21-2020: 台灣遠洋漁船「大旺號」被控虐待印尼漁工，美方採取行動，中止進口漁獲，並不准漁船靠岸。https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20200821001291-260408?chdtv;www.startribune.com/us-blocks-imports-linked-to-taiwan-based-fishing-vessel/572173572/

★  美國國務院人權報告  <USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices>, 3-11-2020: 台灣勞動法無保護家庭幫傭，因此特別容易受到剝削，其中外籍勞工深受壓迫成為受害者，家庭看護工亦常受到僱主濫用或虐待，他們都負擔高額仲介費，即使面臨不平等對待，也會選擇隱忍，繼續工作。從事漁業、農業、製造業及建築業的外傭工作環境不佳，勞動條件差。台灣政府修正法規，鼓勵移工檢舉雇主，仍無法阻止勞動權受害的現況，勞動檢查也無法阻絕違法行為。(Labor laws do not cover domestic household workers, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation.  Foreign workers were most susceptible to forced labor, especially when serving as crew members on Taiwan-flagged fishing vessels. Some labor brokers charged foreign workers exorbitant recruitment fees and used debts incurred from these fees in the source country as tools of coercion to subject the workers to debt bondage.  The Ministry of Labor may also permit foreign workers to transfer to new employers in cases of exploitation or abuse.  foreign workers often were reluctant to report employer abuses for fear the employer would terminate the contract and deport them, leaving them unable to reimburse debt accrued during the recruitment process.  The approximately 703,000 foreign workers, primarily from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, were vulnerable to exploitation. Foreign workers generally incurred significant debt burdens during the recruitment process due to excessive brokerage fees, guarantee deposits, and higher charges for flights and accommodations. Brokerage agencies.   Abuse was common in domestic service; there were several reports of employers raping foreign domestic helpers.  Mistreatment and poor working conditions for foreign fishermen remained common. Foreign fishermen recruited offshore were not entitled to the same labor rights, wages.)

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★  美國國務院人權報告 3-13-2019 : 約60萬外勞(印尼、菲律賓、泰國、越南)很容易遭到剝削，及因貸款仲介費與高額機票等受害, 台灣的家庭照護常遭剝削，外勞是最容易遭受強迫勞動的族群，外籍漁工的遭虐與惡劣工作環境仍舊。目前政府允許外勞在遇到abuse剝削時得轉換雇主 (The approximately 600,000 foreign workers, primarily from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, were vulnerable to exploitation.  Foreign workers generally faced exploitation and incurred significant debt burdens during the recruitment process due to excessive brokerage fees, guarantee deposits, and higher charges for flights and accommodations.  Mistreatment and poor working conditions for foreign fishermen remained common. Foreign fishermen recruited offshore were not entitled to the same labor rights, wages, insurance, and pensions as those recruited locally.   The Ministry of Labor may also permit foreign workers’ transfer to new employers in cases of exploitation or abuse.   Brokerage agencies often required workers to take out loans for “training” and other fees at local branches of Taiwan banks in their home countries at high interest rates, leaving them vulnerable to debt bondage.)  ps: 但不少外勞為潛在犯罪份子, 或挑剔病人體重與重症, 照顧品質不佳的看護工
　

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★ 聯合報 2-6-2020:  口罩實名制未包括，非法移工恐變武漢(CoronaVirus)肺炎防疫漏洞， 呼籲民眾勿用!

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★ 自由時報 (自由廣場), 5-13-2020:  近年來，外籍移工的權益水漲船高，雇主的保障從未見提升，外籍看護虐待被照護者、威脅換仲介，動輒要求換工作、工作水準日漸低下，狀況層出不窮。 外傭逃逸的問題根源 出在外勞、非法仲介、非法聘僱的雇主身上，但近年來眾多政策並未保障雇主，反而保障外籍移工，尤其是惡意失聯的移工。在邁入高齡化的台灣，你我，又如何安心變老？ (張姮燕教授)

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