Fair Treatment Project Updates
First Regional Meeting on the Fair Treatment of Seafarers Manila, November 13, 2018
The First Regional Meeting of Asia’s leading seafaring nations took place in Manila in November, and highlighted the plight many seafarers face in the event of a maritime accident. Senior figures from seafaring nations around the region pledged to lead the drive towards proper and effective implementation of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and International Labor Organization (ILO) agreed Guidelines on the Fair Treatment of[Read More…]
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Fair treatment survey update
At the meeting of the 66th session of the IMO Council in July 2016, in his closing remarks on the work of the IMO Legal Committee, the IMO Secretary General Mr Kitack Lim stated: “I would like to point out the strong support given by the [Legal] Committee to the issue of seafarers’ rights. I welcome the fact that the Committee supported the organization of[Read More…]
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SRI Shares Expertise with the Legal Community
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 Convention, 2006 and Case Law Symposium held last week. The event, organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Training Centre of the ILO, provided lawyers, judges, legal practitioners and academics from around the world with an[Read More…]
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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 important step forward in securing the wellbeing of Filipino seafarers around the world when a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed by Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of SRI, and Silvestre H. Bello III, SRI,[Read More…]
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