{"id":496,"date":"2019-07-11T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couleedevserver.com\/exodus\/ian-urbina-the-outlaw-ocean-human-trafficking-at-sea\/"},"modified":"2021-05-08T03:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:09:22","slug":"ian-urbina-the-outlaw-ocean-human-trafficking-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couleedevserver.com\/exodus\/ian-urbina-the-outlaw-ocean-human-trafficking-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Urbina & The Outlaw Ocean | Human Trafficking at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout the summer, The Exodus Road is highlighting some of the most urgent human trafficking issues playing out in the regions where we work. We aren\u2019t only profiling the frontline work of our TER teams but also the cutting-edge research and work of other brave individuals and organizations in the battle against human trafficking. It is in that spirit that we are excited to feature the work of Ian Urbina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Urbina is an investigative reporter based in Washington, D.C. His investigations often focus on worker safety, human rights, and the environment. He has received a Pulitzer Prize, a Polk Award, and has been nominated for an Emmy. The Outlaw Ocean<\/a> is his latest project, providing an in-depth look at the global state of human trafficking at sea. We asked Urbina for some insight into his book and the connections he found to labor trafficking<\/a> on fishing vessels.<\/p>\n

Lawlessness at Sea<\/h2>\n

Will You Introduce yourself?<\/h4>\n

My name is Ian Urbina, and I am an investigative reporter for The New York Times. For the past five years I have been working on a series and book called The Outlaw Ocean<\/em>, which chronicles the various types of crimes which occur at sea around the world.<\/p>\n

What is the Outlaw Ocean about?<\/h4>\n

The Outlaw Ocean<\/em> is a journalistic exploration of lawlessness at sea around the world. The project\u2019s goal is to increase a sense of urgency by raising awareness and broadening the public\u2019s understanding of what happens at sea, both above and below the waterline.<\/p>\n

This reporting touches on a diversity of abuses ranging from illegal and overfishing, arms trafficking at sea, human slavery, gun running, intentional dumping, murder of stowaways, thievery of ships and other topics.<\/p>\n

Is there a connection with all of these major issues at sea?<\/h4>\n

All of these types of abuses, whether they\u2019re human rights abuses or environmental crimes, stem from a core problem, which is a lack of governance at sea, especially on the high seas. Specifically, there are three ways in which misbehavior happens offshore routinely and with impunity: too few rules, a lack of enforcement, and insufficient awareness of what is happening there. All of these problems are also connected in the sense that they occur with a certain tacit complicity from all of us who live on land.<\/p>\n

We all are the beneficiaries of the lawlessness on the high seas, where 90% of all the products we consume comes by way of ships, and the commercial channels are usually unbothered by the government and, therefore, rules. We have been able to access impossibly cheap products that arrive to our shelves with incredible speed. 90% of everything travels by ship, 50% of our oxygen comes from the ocean, and 70% of the protein we consume comes from the ocean: we are deeply dependent on the ocean.<\/p>\n

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