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 Continues to Drive MLC Learning with the ILO
This July, more than 50 senior legal professionals from 22 countries took the opportunity to increase their understanding of the MLC and the tough challenges faced in implementing its provisions and amendments across local jurisdictions. They came together at the second Symposium on the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 and Case Law, jointly organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Training Centre of[Read More…]
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SRI Applauds New Measures to Address Abandonment
SRI, the international pan-industry body researching maritime and seafarers’ law, has applauded the decision by the first meeting of a joint International Labour Organization (ILO) – International Maritime Organization (IMO) Tripartite Working Group to adopt new measures which improve conditions for seafarers who have been abandoned. Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Executive Director of SRI says: “We welcome these new Guidelines in the hope that they will reverse[Read More…]
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