Press Release 18th May 2019 London. UK. The recent Human Rights at Sea and NGO Pacific Dialogue Fijian fisheries case study about Mesake Kaisuva by his widow Salote Kaisuva, has been used by WWF Western and Central Pacific Tuna Programme Team to brief the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Working Group...
Press Release 13th March 2019 Abandonment. A Pattern of Human Rights Abuse. “My Uncle is a strong man, but he does not have any hope left. His only hope has been to stay sane and to get back some of the wages that are owed to him to take home.” London UK. Following the...
Press Release 25th February 2019 London.UK. Anastasia Papapetrou recently joined Human Rights at Sea’s Internship Programme to conduct remote legal research on the topic of Criminalisation of Maritime Search and Rescue, and other matters in support of the charity’s on-going advocacy work. Anastasia’s internship with Human Rights at Sea is kindly supported by The...
ANNUAL REVIEW 21 December 2018 London.UK. Looking back over past annual reviews there is a common theme of highlighting what we can do better in addition to discussing our successes and delivery. As our charity continues to evolve into its fifth year emerging as a recognised independent maritime human rights organisation that theme continues....
Press Release Friday 12th October 2018 London. UK. Human Rights at Sea is delighted to present Violeta Moreno-Lax and Oscar Pajuelo, who will be speaking together at the International Maritime Human Rights conference this October. Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Law, Founder of the Immigration Law programme, and co-Director and...
Press Release Immediate Tuesday 9 October 2018 London.UK. Today, Human Rights at Sea launches the third and final in its series of freely available educational films and accompanying infographics on the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and their application in the Maritime Environment. The film has been produced by Marlins, a leading crewing and maritime...
PRESS RELEASE Immediate London, UK. Human Rights at Sea is pleased to announce that Mrs. Amy McGeever has joined the charity in the role of fundraiser supporting the development and expansion of the organisation. Amy McGeever is a fundraising specialist with over 20 years’ experience working in the charity sector in the UK and...
PRESS RELEASE Friday 28 September 2018 London. UK. Human Rights at Sea, alongside 41 civil society organisations, have today issued in Bangkok through HRW a joint statement to the Thai Government to pass a stand-alone forced labor law that meets international standards and contains significant penalties for violators. Statement “Almost 40 years ago, Thailand...
Press Release Immediate Tuesday 25 September 2018 London.UK.Human Rights at Sea presents Eleanor Farrow as a speaker at the International Maritime Human Rights Conference 2018 Eleanor Farrow is the Project Coordinator for the eyeWitness to Atrocities initiative at the International Bar Association. Eleanor engages with a worldwide network of human rights monitors documenting human...
Press Release Immediate Friday 14 September 2018 Human Rights at Sea is proud to present the next speaker for the International Maritime Human Rights Conference 2018, Parosha Chandran. Parosha Chandran is a human rights barrister based at One Pump Court in London, a specialist in modern slavery law and a world-leading expert on the...
PRESS RELEASE Immediate London. UK. Human Rights at Sea is pleased to publish its Year Four Timeline of Delivery infographic demonstrating the key highlights of its work in its fourth year between May 2017 – May 2018. The Timeline highlights just some of the most important deliverables for the charity to the international community and maritime sector...
Press Release Tuesday 24 July 2018 London. UK. Human Rights at Sea in partnership with University of Bristol Human Rights Clinic and Human Rights Implementation Centre have published the first report on ‘Flag States and Human Rights’. The report is a study on flag state practice in monitoring, reporting and enforcing human rights obligations...
Notice Friday 8th June 2018 UK.London. Leiden Law School hosts a conference on ‘The EU as a Global Actor in Maritime Security: Competences – Obligations – Accountability’ from 25 to 26 October 2018. It takes place in the framework of the ILS 2.0 research project ‘Policing the high seas: maritime law-enforcement in a multi-actor...
Press Release 8 May 2018 London. Italy’s collaboration with Libya to stop migrants and asylum seekers reaching Europe is facing a legal challenge over allegations that it has led to grave human rights violations against those crossing the Mediterranean, including torture and slavery. Seventeen survivors of a fatal incident in which a boat carrying migrants...
Press Release 27 APRIL 2018 London. Human Rights at Sea is closely watching the ongoing situation in the central Mediterranean route, and is deeply concerned with the restrictive asylum policies of the European Union and the general securitisation and criminalisation of search and rescue at sea. What we are witnessing is push backs operations of...