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02 Dec 2022Ending Slavery is Easy. Why Won't Those with Power Act?Opinion piece by Dr Aidan McQuade, OBE During the 2019 rainy season, I travelled with colleagues to the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar. There we spent a week talking to families in five different communities. The men of the families worked in the country’s shrimp fisheries of the Gulf of Mottama. AsSlavery at Sea -
01 Dec 2022Human Rights at Sea is Proud to Support Wilton Park Human Rights Law at Sea ConferenceIn a few days, Wilton Park will bring together selected experts and practitioners to explore tensions between the fundamental concepts underpinning the law of the sea and those underpinningAbout usLaw Reform and Policy -
30 Nov 2022Human Rights at Sea Discussed by the Grand Committee at the UK House of LordsThe International Defence and Relations Committee Inquiry took the opportunity to examine whether The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was fit for purpose in light of theLaw Reform and Policy -
29 Nov 2022Maritime New Zealand Requests HRAS Advisory Opinion on a Future Model for Sustainable Seafarer Welfare Funding.Human Rights at Sea continues to work closely with the New Zealand Government’s maritime agency, Maritime New Zealand, providing a consultative advisory opinion on the core structure and key requirements for the forthcoming state-led policy review on maritime levies and sustainable welfare fundingLaw Reform and Policy -
23 Nov 2022NGO Observers request WCPFC consideration of enhancements to proposed fishers' safety, security and well-being regulationA collective of Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) observer NGOs have come together to publicly share their detailed concerns around the implementation of a new conservation andLaw Reform and Policy -
21 Nov 2022U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan Must Include Increased Measures to Address IUU fishing and Associated Human Rights Abuses at SeaAlongside leading environmental, human and labour rights organisations, Human Rights at Sea has added its support for the need to include measures to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU)Law Reform and Policy -
18 Nov 2022UN: Human Rights Abuses At Sea By Mercenaries and Private Military and Security Companies Highlight the Urgent Need For Oversight of Maritime SecurityHuman Rights at Sea have engaged with The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCR) UN Working Group on a report highlighting the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of people's right to self-determination. "While these shifts carry theLaw Reform and Policy -
14 Nov 2022Combating the Smuggling of Migrants at SeaHuman Rights at Sea Board Member Participates in UNODC Training on Smuggling of Migrants at Sea. On Thursday, 3rd November, Dr Marika McAdam, member of the Human Rights at Sea Board of TrusteesAbout usMigrants & Refugees -
08 Nov 2022Italy Faces Legal Action as it Blocks Migrants from Disembarking Charity Rescue Ship."I'm just a seaman doing his job rescuing people in distress.." SOS Humanity has promised to take legal action against the decree of the Italian government and the prevention of the disembarkation ofMigrants & Refugees
