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The number of people behind on their water bills in the Cleveland area has tripled during the pandemic. People are struggling to pay their utility bills and to navigate the systems of assistance that are available for utility bills. What can be done about this problem?

Taiwan Fishery Agency responds to US DoL blacklisting By Share Taiwan’s fishing authorities have responded to being placed on a U.S. government blacklist by listing a series of measures it introduced in the past year to combat forced labor. In October 2020, the U.S. Labor Department placed Taiwan on its 2020 List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. In response, Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency has ordered the country’s Department of Transport to ensure that all vessels than 24 meters and longer in length must comply with the International Labour Organization’s Convention 1...

A demonstration in Jakarta in December against modern slavery at sea Credit: Andolu Agency When Arif, a 19-year-old Indonesian fisherman, died quietly in his bunk on a Taiwanese fishing boat in June 2019 – blood staining his mouth – a Fijian coroner ruled that he had suffered a pulmonary oedema. But his fellow crewmen tell a different story to the official narrative and allege his sudden passing was likely linked to the brutal beatings to the head and neck that were regularly meted out to the rookie crew member from his superiors. “Every single day [they] bullied him, they punched and...