Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of SRI, joined key experts from international organisations, universities, the legal profession and the maritime industry to speak at the Maritime Labour ...
SRI Shares Expertise with the Legal Community
IMO speaks out on predicted record number of seafarer abandonments in 2022
Dr Heike Deggim, Director of IMO's Maritime Safety Division, speaking at the MPA Singapore's Safety @ Sea week said yesterday that 74 cases of seafarer abandonment had been reported to the IMO/ILO so ...
The importance of collaboration
The drive to protect the rights and welfare of seafarers around the world turns on international cooperation, and earlier this year SRI and the government of the Philippines took an ...
New report aims to understand seafarer suicide and its potential under-reporting
A new report commissioned by the UK Government discusses the mental health of seafarers and the impacts of suicide, the support available and the potential under-reporting of suicides in the sector in ...
World Celebrates Day of the Seafarer
The world celebrated Day of the Seafarer on Saturday 25 June, with a collective mix of memories and tales of life at sea. For 2022, the campaign of the Day of the Seafarer, with the theme 'Your ...
Record all enclosed space deaths urges SRI Advisory Board Member Kuba Szymanski, as two more workers die
As two more workers die in an enclosed space on board a ship, InterManager has hit out at the shipping industry’s inadequate reporting of serious and fatal accidents. Captain Kuba Szymanski, SRI ...
Global shipowner group and seafarers’ unions agree new three-year global minimum wage ‘safety net’ deal
The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) once again convened the latest bipartite round of negotiations between shipowners and seafarers’ unions from across the world, coordinated by the ...
More states must ratify MLC if it is to have comprehensive global reach says SRI
In a statement submitted to the Special Tripartite Committee (STC) meeting held last week, SRI, the international pan-industry body researching maritime and seafarers’ law, called for more States to ...
Statement from SRI submitted to the Special Tripartite Committee Meeting (STC4) Part II, May 2022
This STC is meeting in historic times. The maritime industry faces many challenges, threating global supply chains and global security. Seafarers’ lives are at risk and seafarers’ rights are being ...
Seafarers win commitment to mandatory internet access in international law
Seafarers’ groups have won the right to mandatory social connectivity for crews –including internet access – in updates to the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC). The latest Special Tripartite ...
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