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17 Aug 2025Maersk’s Dilemma over UN Report on Gaza Conflict reflects Need for Supply Chain AccountabilityOPINION Read Time: 8 minutes [Updated 17 August 2025 20:36 BST] The global shipping firm A-P Moller Maersk (‘Maersk’) has been named by Ms. Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as being potentially complicit as one of the ‘global logistics giants’Access to JusticeLaw Reform and Policy Development -
11 Aug 2025UK Parliamentary Question on Ratification of Cape Town AgreementOn 28 July 2025, Lord Teverson asked the UK Government Department for Transport about the proposed ratification of the Cape Town Agreement to enhance fishing safety. The Cape Town Agreement (CTA)Access to JusticeLaw Reform and Policy Development -
07 Aug 2025NATO Revised Maritime Strategy ReleasedNATO has publicly released its revised Alliance Maritime Strategy in an Unclassified document reflecting the wide-ranging dissemination to 'stakeholders in industry and academia, partners and theLaw Reform and Policy Development -
05 Aug 2025Will Shipping Companies be found Legally Complicit in the Conduct of the Gaza War and Emerging Genocide?OPINION The issue of corporate legal risk and complicity in the transport of materials knowingly used in the conduct of the Gaza war and emerging genocide should be at the forefront of responsible business considerations by shipping entities, shareholders and supporting third-parties. The 7 OctoberAccess to Justice -
02 Aug 2025Collaborative Support for Indonesian Fishers engaged in Human Trafficking LawsuitAlongside other civil society organisations, Human Rights at Sea has decided to lend its support to a group of Indonesian fishers who have filed a human trafficking lawsuit for alledged abusiveAccess to JusticeSlavery at Sea -
30 Jul 2025Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea Now Available in TurkishHuman Rights at Sea is pleased to announce the publication of the Turkish translation of the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea. This important document, which consolidates and advances theLaw Reform and Policy Development -
22 Jul 2025UK Civil Society Covenant Will Impact Human Rights Protections at SeaNot a moment too soon the publication of a Civil Society Covenant and Programme reflects a new principles-based arrangement for re-setting the relationship between the UK Government and civil society. Within the UK democracy engagement between government departments and civil society has often beenAccess to JusticeLaw Reform and Policy Development -
02 Jul 2025Limited Approach to Human Rights at Sea at Third UN Oceans ConferenceThe third UN Oceans Conference ‘Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Responsibility’ held in Nice, France, 9-13 June 2025, was a key opportunity for the emerging agenda around the protection of human rights atAccess to JusticeLaw Reform and Policy Development -
22 Jun 2025State of the Industry Snapshot: Bullying and harassment at seaA new report by the Sailors Society covering the issue of bullying and harassment has been issued in time for the 2025 IMO Day of the Seafarer in which Human Rights at Sea Founder shares his earlyAccess to JusticeLaw Reform and Policy Development
