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10 Dec 2019Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea on-line platform launched on World Human Rights Day10th December 2019 “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. […] Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to upholdAccess to JusticeLaw Reform and Policy -
10 Dec 2019Eleven Seafarers in Eight Languages send Human Rights at Sea a video message of solidarityPress Release 10th December 2019 WORLD HUMAN RIGHTS DAY “I am a sailor and I stand up for human rights at sea” London. UK. On World Human Rights Day 2019, from within the shipping industry, a merchant -
28 Nov 2019UK Fisheries Sector Human Rights and Social Welfare Baseline Project gets underwayPress Release 28th November 2019 London. UK. The first stage of the inaugural UK Fisheries Sector Human Rights and Social Welfare Baseline Project has started as part of new joint work between Human -
27 Nov 2019Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launches new web portal recording Pacific Human Rights abusesPRESS RLEASE 27th November 2019 London.UK. The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) has launched a new web portal covering the Pacific region. The new platform was announced at the Geneva-based UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in the session ‘Advancing the BHR Agenda in the Pacific -
19 Nov 2019Bangladesh Supreme Court denounces illegalities and lack of transparency in shipbreaking sectorPress Release 19th November 2019 The NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a NGO partner of Human Rights at Sea, themselves in collaboration with the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association, has achieved a -
06 Nov 2019Bangkok Post Op-Ed: Seafood industry must walk talkThe following Op-Ed was written by Art Prapha, Oxfam America’s Senior Private Sector Adviser and was published in the Bangkok Post on the 5th of November 2019. Human Rights at Sea replicates hereunder -
22 Oct 2019Working Together. The Headline of the 11th ICMA World ConferencePress Release 22 October 2019 Kaohsiung, Taiwan, People's Republic of China. Reporting from the city of Kaohsiung, Human Rights at Sea attends the 11th International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) world conference as a guest civil society NGO alongside the ICMA membership over the period 21 -
18 Oct 2019Indian National Human Rights Commission engages with Human Rights at SeaPress Release 18th October 2019 New Delhi, India. This week during a series of regional State-level outreach engagements, Human Rights at Sea was invited by the Indian National Human Rights Commission -
12 Oct 2019How lawless are the oceans?Press Release 12 October 2019 London. UK. Monocle 24 Radio’s Foreign Desk has released its latest foreign affairs episode: ‘How lawless are the oceans?’ “In an ever more monitored world, escaping to
