Update: UK UNCLOS Inquiry: Is UNCLOS Fit for Protecting Human Rights at Sea? A Comment.
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Update: UK UNCLOS Inquiry: Is UNCLOS Fit for Protecting Human Rights at Sea? A Comment.
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London. UK. Dr Elizabeth Mavropoulou provides a detailed commentary on one of the contemporary challenges that international law is facing today in protecting, monitoring, and enforcing human rights at sea.The post New independent review explores violations of seafarers’ rights during COVID-19 and calls for action on World Human Rights Day 2021
New independent review explores violations of seafarers’ rights during COVID-19 and calls for action on World Human Rights Day 2021
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| London. UK. On World Human Rights Day 2021, Human Rights at Sea publishes an independent review chronicling an ongoing humanitarian crisis at sea and the continued violation of seafarers’ human and... |
Update: Sea-Watch airborne operations in Mediterranean highlight lack of assistance from EU
Update: Sea-Watch airborne operations in Mediterranean highlight lack of assistance from EU
London. UK. Recent rescue operations carried out in the central Mediterranean reinforce the fatal consequences of European member States’ failure to assist migrants and refugees, according to German NGO Sea-Watch.
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Update: Too late to the rescue: 31 migrants die crossing the English Channel as proposed legislation threatens asylum seeker rights
Update: Too late to the rescue: 31 migrants die crossing the English Channel as proposed legislation threatens asylum seeker rights
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| Twenty-seven migrants and asylum seekers have reportedly lost their lives while attempting to cross the English Channel to reach the United Kingdom, after their boat sank off the coast of Calais overnight. Seven women and three... |
Update: Australia’s network of Port Welfare Committees gains momentum with new establishment in Port of Albany
Update: Australia’s network of Port Welfare Committees gains momentum with new establishment in Port of Albany
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18 November 2021 London. UK. / Port of Albany, Western Australia. A growing network of Port Welfare Committees around the Australian coastline has been strengthened by the recent establishment of a new committee in the Port of Albany, Western Australia....
Update: UK House of Lords Inquiry. Is the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea still fit for purpose?
Update: UK House of Lords Inquiry. Is the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea still fit for purpose?
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LONDON. UK. An inquiry into the future of the United Nations on the Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) and its applicability in 21st century has been launched by the UK House of Lords Select Committee on International Relations and Defence.
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BBC News Interview with HRAS on Proposed English Channel Migrant Pushbacks
BBC News Interview with HRAS on Proposed English Channel Migrant Pushbacks
9 September 2021 London. UK. Following a 48 hour period of ongoing controversy after the UK Home Office suggested that push-backs of migrant boats crossing the English Channel would be used in limited and specific circumstances by UK Border Force vessels to redirect migrants into French territorial waters, the BBC has spoken with […]
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HRAS: Death of Master, Food and Water Shortages and Failure in State Support leaves Crew Desperate
HRAS: Death of Master, Food and Water Shortages and Failure in State Support leaves Crew Desperate
Death of Master, Food and Water Shortages and Failure in State Support leaves Crew Desperate
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London. UK. Following the unexpected death on 19 April 2021 of the Romanian Master of the MV VANTAGE WAVE (IMO: 9506514) Human Rights at Sea has been asked by the deceased’s family, and instructed by Gard P&I insurers on behalf of owners’ and crew members’ interests, to bring urgent...
Human Rights at Sea: Bangkok Post Op-Ed: Seafood industry must walk talk
Human Rights at Sea: Bangkok Post Op-Ed: Seafood industry must walk talk
The following Op-Ed was written by Art Prapha, Oxfam America’s Senior Private Sector Adviser and was published in the Bangkok Post on the 5th of November 2019. Human Rights at Sea replicates hereunder. “Recently, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced that the US will be suspending US$1.3 billion (39.2 billion baht) in…
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Latest News from Human Rights at Sea: Working Together. The Headline of the 11th ICMA World Conference
Latest News from Human Rights at Sea: Working Together. The Headline of the 11th ICMA World Conference
Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Reporting from the city of Kaohsiung, Human Rights at Sea attends the 11th International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) world conference as a guest civil society NGO...