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10 Dec 2018Human Rights Day 10 December 2018Press Release Monday 10 December 2018 London.UK. Today we mark the 70th year anniversary of the United Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since 2014, HRAS has been explicitly
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06 Dec 2018Updated commentary on flagging issue of Aquarius SAR vesselCOMMENTARY Thursday 6 December 2018 Geneva. Update to 3 December Press Release on flagging of the Aquarius Switzerland. The country of Henry Dunant, father of humanitarian principles, has responded to
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06 Dec 2018HRAS publishes new legal research paper on Business and Human RightsPRESS RELEASE 6th December 2018 London.UK. Human Rights at Sea publishes its latest legal research paper on maritime business and human rights as part of its ongoing legal research programme. The
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04 Dec 2018HRAS Comments from Geneva on the status of the SAR NGO vessel AquariusPRESS RELEASE Tuesday 04 December 2018 Geneva. On November 30th, the Swiss Parliament has responded to a parliamentary inquiry on the possibility of letting the Aquarius, search-and-rescue (SAR) ship run by SOS Méditerranée and Médecins sans Frontières, denying the vessel to sail under the Swiss
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11 Nov 2018Missing Seafarers & Fishers Reporting Programme UpdatedUK. London. The flagship programme for the Human Rights at Sea charity, the Missing Seafarers and Fishers Reporting Programme, has been updated and the website refreshed to ensure easier and more
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09 Nov 2018HRAS publishes second Case Study on Seafarers’ Abandonment in IranPress Release 9 November 2018 London.UK. HRAS has just published the second part of the ongoing case study on seafarers’ abandonment on the Kish Island of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The second part
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31 Oct 2018Award winning LIFEBOAT Film to be screened in Los Angeles at the Museum of TolerancePress Release Wednesday 31st of October London.UK. The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, CA will be offering a special screening of the award winning LIFEBOAT Film of Skye Fitzgerald on the 13th of November 2018 at 7.30 pm. The screening will follow a Q&A with the director of the film and special
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25 Oct 2018Human Rights at Sea publishes Fourth Annual ReportPRESS RELEASE 25 October 2018 Human Rights at Sea Annual Report Year Four: Global Delivery of Maritime Human Rights London.UK. Human Rights at Sea publishes its Annual Report covering the UK-based
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18 Oct 2018UK Anti Slavery Day – 18 October 2018Press Release Thursday 18 October 2018 Immediate London.UK. Today, Thursday 18th of October i s Anti-Slavery Day in the UK. While many may think slavery is a thing of the past, modern slavery is