In the last week, Human Rights at Sea has received multiple messages from seafarers requesting urgent assistance as the crew change crisis and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to bite deep in the 1.6-1.7 million strong seafarer community. Such messages are just a snapshot of the issues being raised, mostly behind the industry scenes, and often with minimal public profiling.
Increasingly, this is highlighting a wider and more insidious issue of the assessed deliberate suppression of the...