Ian Urbina: The Outlaw Ocean
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Ed Ou The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Eric T White
Pulitzer-prize winning investigative journalist and author of New York Times bestseller
The Outlaw Ocean,
Ian Urbina is director of non-profit
The Outlaw Ocean Project
based in Washington D.C., investigating human rights, environment and labour concerns.
Urbina's award-winning podcast
The Outlaw Ocean
Season 2 casts light on secretive Libyan prisons swallowing up sea-faring migrants, flagrant human rights abuses in China's massive off-shore fleet and the horrors of a shrimp processing plant in India.
Ian speaks with Susie.
A view of the Geo Barents, a rescue vessel operated by Doctors Without Borders in the Central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya on June 6, 2021. As the world felt like it was emerging from Covid in early 2021, there was a new surge in migration across the Central Mediterranean. At the same time, European countries locked down their borders, and the EU border agency began to increasingly rely on and collaborate with the Libyan Coast Guard (LCG) to keep the migrants from European shores, giving the LCG assistance in intercepting migrant boats. As a result, this year has seen a dramatic increase in the deadliness of these crossings. Amid these pressures, humanitarian ships have slowly begun resuming their operations. (Ed Ou/The Outlaw Ocean Project)
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