Tag: HRAS

Human Rights at Sea urges the Australian Government to reinforce political will and national legislative pathways to assure sustainable and long-term welfare support in law through existing maritime levy structures.

According to Human Rights at Sea (HRAS), indiscriminate attacks against the vessels and their seafarers who are caught up in the conflict and remain in the firing line, constitute war crimes.

Human Rights at Sea informs that the introduction of a dedicated maritime levy in New Zealand is visibly maximizing support for seafarers.

According to HRAS, there have been around 1500 seafarers trapped at sea, as a result of the current invasion. Some crews have been working 20-hour days to get the job done, while suffering with shortages of provisions and fear that they will not get home to see their families.

Human Rights at Sea called for help to raise £50,000 to support its work in Ukraine and help with the humanitarian crisis caused by the war.

On March 1st, the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea was launched, developed by UK-based NGO Human Rights at Sea, with the aim to define and defend the human rights of all people crossing the world’s oceans and seas.

Twenty-five global NGOs, including Human Rights at Sea, have united to affirm their stance against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in an official letter to Secretary John Kerry, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.

Human Rights at Sea issued a new civil society policy briefing critically reviewing EU Member States and the European Border and Coastguard Agency (Frontex) policies and practices in undertaking search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea.

Human Rights at Sea published a review presenting "an ongoing humanitarian crisis at sea and the continued violation of seafarers’ human and labour rights."

The movement of an internationally displaced community of I-Kiribati seafarers has been expedited by recent travel arrangements.