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23 Sep 2019Italian authorities allow the Ocean Viking to disembark 182 survivors in ItalyPress Release 23 September 2019 SOS Mediterranee Reproduced Central Mediterranean. On Sunday evening[22 October 2019], the Ocean Viking, a humanitarian rescue ship chartered by SOS MEDITERRANEE and operated in partnership with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), received instructions from the Maritime -
22 Sep 2019Norwegian Flag and owners step up to support new humanitarian rescue vessel in MediterraneanPress Release 22 July 2019 London, UK. The Norwegian Flag and Norwegian owners have stepped up to provide a new civil society humanitarian rescue vessel the Viking Ocean to be operated in the central -
22 Sep 2019Captain Jessica Tyson awarded Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious ServicePress Release 22nd September 2019 London. UK. Former trustee, current Board member of Human Rights at Sea, Sedgemoor District Council’s deputy harbour master and Nautilus Council member, Captain -
22 Sep 2019ITF Union explicitly highlights human rights abuses in Gavrylov CasePress Release 22nd September 2019 London. UK. The ITF Union has further reinforced its backing in the case of Captain Gennadiy Gavrylov who was arrested in Sri Lanka on 23 June 2016 in connection with the Sri Lankan flagged vessel Avant Garde (IMO 8107036). Importantly, ITF has explicitly -
15 Sep 2019India Driving National Human Rights at Sea AgendaPress Release 15th July 2019 London, UK. The Indian Government and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) are driving forward with the newly created ‘human rights at sea’ agenda in quick time -
15 Sep 2019Ocean Viking assigned a Place of Safety in Lampedusa ItalyPress Release 15th September 2019 London, UK. [Reproduced from SOS MEDITERRANEE] The Ocean Viking receives instruction to disembark the 82 rescued people in Lampedusa, Italy. First humanitarian search -
12 Sep 2019Keeping our Seafarers Safe. Reporting from Fiji.Press Release 12th October 2019 London, UK. Reporting in Fijian media in the July edition of Islands Business Magazine has highlighted the work being undertaken by Human Rights at Sea and NGO partners in the evidential collation of cases of abuses in the Pacific region and particularly in relation -
05 Sep 2019OP-ED: Sea-Watch Captain freed. A victory for humanitarian rescue at sea.OP-ED 5 July 2019 Photo credit: Reuters Geneva, Switzerland. Captain Carola Rackete has now been freed, but the European political controversy continues. The judicial decision delivered a much needed -
03 Sep 2019‘High Seas Low Deeds’: New Internationalist Magazine highlights Human Rights at Sea workPress Release 3rd September 2019 London. UK. The award winning New Internationalist Magazine in its latest issue has highlighted the work undertaken by Human Rights at Sea in the development of global
