Category: Human Trafficking

Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea on-line platform launched on World Human Rights Day

Abuse, Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea, Governance, Human Trafficking, Law, Policy, Press Release

London. UK.The 10thof December is World Human Rights Day. This is the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is a key date in the calendar for human rights defenders to profile their valuable, challenging and often dangerous work helping to uphold and develop human rights provisions,...

Concerning allegations over maritime recruitment practices and human rights abuses in India

Abuse, Flag State, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, India, Labour rights, Missing Seafarers Register, Non-payment of wages, Press Release, Press Releases, Reporting, Seafarers, Slavery, Slavery and Trafficking

HRAS Press Release Sunday 1 July 2018 LONDON.UK.Human Rights at Sea is concerned over allegations that came into light from seafarers on maritime recruitment practices in India that amount to modern slavery. Young seafarers are taking out loans to pay for courses, which promise lucrative jobs and earnings without those courses to have any...

Escaping the Tiger, Then Meeting the Crocodile: Interview with Phil Robertson Human Rights Watch

Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Interview

HRAS Interview: Escaping the Tiger, Then Meeting the Crocodile Thousands of migrant workers from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos cross the border into Thailand each year. They trade poverty at home for the possibility of relative prosperity abroad. A Thai proverb – escaping from the tiger, then meeting the crocodile – describes the fate of...

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