Can the high seas escape the law of might?
Whether it is the food that we eat, the everyday items we use or the energy we consume, goods from the sea are everywhere in our lives. As a result, the oceans are a strategic battleground where the law of the strongest reigns with disconcerting impunity.
The seas, far from being a wilderness, provide a workplace for 50 million people around the world. And all too often, the unregulated activities of industrial fishing, which threaten ecological balance, and conceal widespread human rights violations.
Gerry Simpson
Associate Director, Crisis and Conflict Division, Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Adelin Coigny
David Hammond
Barrister, Executive Director Human Rights at Sea International
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Patima Tungpuchayakul
protagonist of "Ghost Fleet", activist and founder of LPN Foundation
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Claire Nouvian
Environmental activist and founder of the Bloom association
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Shannon Service
Co-director of "Ghost Fleet"
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French, english, thaï
Ghost Fleet
Do you know where the prawns you buy in the supermarket come from? If they come from South-East Asia, they may have been harvested by enslaved people. Led by Patima Tungpuchayakul, a woman of unwavering determination, a small group of activists have dedicated themselves heart and soul to the fight against human trafficking. They have already enabled more than 4,000 of these men, reduced to the status of modern-day ghosts, to be reunited with their families after years of silence.
Shannon Service
Shannon Service
Ocean 8 Films
