State Department Launches $2M Initiative to Combat Forced Labor, IUU Fishing in Supply Chains

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The US Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) is seeking a single NGO or institutional partner to run a nearly $2 million program targeting forced labor and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing across global seafood supply chains, with a focus on East Asia, the Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere.

The funding opportunity — formally titled "Ensuring Resilient Seafood Supply Chains: Countering Forced Labor and any Associated Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing" (DFOP0019538) — was posted August 6, 2026, with applications...

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