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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
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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.”
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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
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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
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05 Jul 2019UN FAO Draft Guidance on Social Responsibility in Fisheries and Aquaculture Value Chains is available for public consultationPress Release Friday 5 July 2019 London.UK. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has published a Draft Guidance on Social Responsibility in Fisheries and Aquaculture Value
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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
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01 Jul 2019Update to abandoned Indian Seafarers of MV Tamim Aldar off UAE CoastPress Release I July 2019 “We don’t have any option to save our life, we have to go, so finally we decided and went with our lifeboat…we are very afraid, but somehow we have to go to save us.” Testimony of abandoned seafarers of MV Tamim Aldar having been forced to abandon their vessel to try to
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01 Jul 2019Abandoned seafarer podcast testimony to conditions endured on MV Tamim AldarPress Release 1 July 2019 London. UK. At the time of writing in a rapidly developing phase to the current matter which should herald the end of the abandonment of the remaining crew onboard the UAE
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29 Jun 2019HRAS deplores the arrest of Captain Carola RacketePress Release 29th June 2019 Photo Credit:Carola Rackete REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane London. UK. The arrest in the early hours this morning in the Italian port of Lampedusa of Carola Rackete, the