{"id":91,"date":"2016-10-28T02:16:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2016-10-28T02:16:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T02:16:37","slug":"pulitzer-prize-winner-calls-for-focus-on-labor-abuses-in-the-global-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/28\/pulitzer-prize-winner-calls-for-focus-on-labor-abuses-in-the-global-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize Winner Calls for Focus on Labor Abuses in the Global Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Cristina Wu
\nphotos by Mathilda Guo<\/p>\n

Labor abuse may be an open secret in many supply chains around the world, but journalists need to find out the problems, a Pulitzer Prize Winner said in a lecture today.<\/p>\n

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Student Xiaoqing asks McDowell about female journalists.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many countries, including Thailand, Taiwan, China and the US have slaves on fishing boats, Associated Press reporter Robin McDowell, who won a Pulitzer for her reporting on slavery in the fishing industry, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we wanted to show was not the Thailand was doing this but something that we pursued to connect with dots, so people could see this is happening in industry wide,\u201d McDowell said.<\/p>\n

In the one-year investigation, McDowell and her team exposed labor abuses in Southeast Asia\u2019s fishing industry. Their reporting successfully freed over 2,000 slaves and inspired reforms in the industry.<\/p>\n

Labor abuse is an ongoing problem, McDowell said. Many people are on the side of the business and it is a common joke, she said, adding that this is why they decided to make people care.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo often in the case, it\u2019s not when governments put pressure on businesses, it\u2019s not when human right activists put pressure on groups, it\u2019s when consumers say \u2018we are not going to buy this anymore\u2019, and that\u2019s when we start seeing change,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Production is done piece by piece in different parts of the world, so that people often fail to know what they are buying is from sweatshop or a slave, she said.<\/p>\n

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She used the shoe industry as an example. \u201cBecause the industry was divided into such tiny little pieces, maybe someone is making the shoelace, and that is the problem story,\u201d she said. Companies like Nike that buy the shoes may not realize themselves about this problem in their supply chains until journalists expose it, she said.<\/p>\n

Their team focused on one particular supply chain, but the bigger problem it revealed is worthy of continuous concern, she said.<\/p>\n

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