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22 Jul 2019Iranian Ship Detentions: Time for updated Deprivation of Liberty at Sea GuidancePress Release 22 July 2019 London. UK. Following the detention by Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces of the UK-flagged Stena Impero on Friday 19 July and the latest reported actions which have seen the 23 person crew taken off the ship for “questioning”, Human Rights at Sea renews its call for -
18 Jul 2019HRAS Advisory Board Member becomes first female ITLOS Judge ad hocPress Release 18th July 2019 Photo Credit: ITLOS/University of Basel London. UK. Human Rights at Sea is delighted to report that Prof. Dr. Anna Petrig, Professor of International Law at the University -
18 Jul 2019UN experts condemn criminalisation of migrant rescues and threats to the independence of judiciaryPress Release 18th July 2019 Reproduced Article. GENEVA (18 July 2019) – UN human rights experts* have expressed grave concern over the detention and criminal proceedings in Italy against the German -
16 Jul 2019HRAS shortlisted for Safety4Sea Europort AwardsPress Release 16th July 2019 London.UK. Human Rights at Sea is pleased to share the news that it has been shortlisted for the 2019 Safety4Sea Europort Awards in the category of ‘Initiative Award’ for its work raising global awareness of human rights abuses at sea through a series of case studies -
14 Jul 2019Wallem CEO takes firm line over abuse of seafarer human rightsPress Release 14th July 2019 “Investing in a company or building or trucks and planes is easy. You run out of money, the staff go home. In ships you simply walk away and leave the crew stranded.” -
10 Jul 2019MV Tamim Aldar Seafarer Vikas Mishra updated abandonment testimonyPress Release 9th July 2019 London. UK. One of the three remaining seafarers onboard the UAE flagged MV Tamim Aldar, owned by Dubai-based Eliteway Marine Services Ltd, has provided Human Rights at Sea -
08 Jul 2019NGO Shipbreaking Platform Publishes South Asia Quarterly Update 19Press Release Monday 8th of July 2019 London.UK. “There were a total of 193 ships broken in the second quarter of 2019. Of these, 146 ships were sold to the infamous scrapping beaches of South Asia, where working conditions are known to be dire and breaking practices cause irreparable damage to the -
05 Jul 2019UN FAO Draft Guidance on Social Responsibility in Fisheries and Aquaculture Value Chains is available for public consultationPress Release Friday 5 July 2019 London.UK. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has published a Draft Guidance on Social Responsibility in Fisheries and Aquaculture Value -
04 Jul 2019OP-ED: NGO Pacific Dialogue on Pacific SeafarersOpinion Piece 4th July 2019 Suva, Fiji. The Fijian partner to Human Rights at Sea, the NGO Pacific Dialogue, released an OP-ED for the occasion of the 2019 ‘Day of the Seafarer’ which is reproduced
