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‘I’ve seen hell’: inside the global crisis of seafarer exploitation
Young seafarers are lured into dangerous work, then abandoned
05 June 2025 - 04:30
When coast guard officers boarded junior seafarer Omkar Pawar’s ship off Trinidad and Tobago in 2020, one of them pointed a gun in his face...
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