Tag: human rights

HRAS launched the third of three educational videos on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the Maritime Environment. The third video focuses on: Maritime Business & Human Rights: Corporate Actions. The film has been produced by Marlins, a crewing and maritime educational training provider.

In its latest series of maritime education videos, Human Rights at Sea is covering the topic of Effective Remedy for Business and Human Rights in the maritime environment. The 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are international voluntary guidance for business and human rights.

The 'Human Trafficking and IUU Fishing Act' would add the Secretary of Commerce to the President’s existing Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, in response to the growing human trafficking, forced labor, and human rights abuses in global seafood supply chain.

In its latest series of maritime education videos, Human Rights at Sea is covering the introduction to the topic of the development of Business and Human Rights in the maritime environment. The 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are international voluntary guidance for business and human rights.

EJF urged the Taiwanese government to review its fisheries law after it documented gross human rights violations aboard a Taiwanese vessel, which became the first in the world to be detained over the summer for violating new international standards of decent work in fishing.