Press Release
Tuesday 22 June 2021
London, UK. Human Rights at Sea today publishes its Impact Report for the seventh year of charitable NGO work and activities in raising global awareness of human rights abuses at sea to drive institutional, legislative and policy change and better protections for the lives of those living, working, transiting and otherwise operating in the maritime environment.
The Report is delivered as an infographic highlighting the key work undertaken by the charity’s Trustees, the project team and researchers over the period 1 June 2020 – 31 May 2021. It includes 17 Publications and Case Studies, 74 news feeds and press releases, 6 podcasts, 6 Op-Eds, 8 webinars and other key work Human Rights at Sea has delivered covering 36 countries.
Programme Manager, Elizabeth Mavropoulou commented: “Looking back over the last 12 months, we worked hard to continue advocating for human rights protections at sea and developing the concept of human rights at sea. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic that curtailed international face-to-face travel, we managed to the scale up our engagement and the reach of the charity’s work from Europe to the Pacific.”