Report: US supermarkets, restaurants selling Indian shrimp produced by forced labour

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Despite its huge market share, India’s labour and environmental failings have remained under the radar, says Corporate Accountability Lab

Forced and child labour, and other exploitative practices, together with environmental harm, are pervasive in India’s multi-billion-dollar shrimp farming industry, according to a damning report from US non-profit organisation Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL).

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