Tag: ILO Convention

The Seafood Slavery Risk Tool, originally created with Liberty Asia, Seafish and the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and now jointly run by the aquarium with Liberty Asia and SFP, produces a rating indicating the likelihood that human trafficking, forced labor and hazardous child labor are occurring on fishing boats in a specific fishery. 

The third meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee established in accordance with Article XIII of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 will take place at the ILO in Geneva, from 23 to 27 April 2018.

The Government of Myanmar has deposited with the ILO the instrument of ratification of the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 No. 185, as amended, becoming the 35th ILO member State to ratify the Convention. The amended version of the Convention entered into force on 8 June 2017.

The UK’s fishing federations in conjunction with the MCA Fishing Safety ​team have developed a Fishing Safety Management System that will assist fishermen with the imminent implementation of a generational change to fishing safety legislation, the ILO 188 Fishing Convention.

The ILO Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (ILO188) can have the potential to create a new era for millions of fishers worldwide, ITF says. The new regulation aims to provide improved occupational safety and health and medical care at sea, and that sick or injured fishers receive care ashore

IMO says that one this Agreement becomes fully ratified and effective, there will be an internationally binding agreement which will facilitate better control of fishing vessel safety by flag, port and coastal States. It will also contribute to the fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.

The decision was made due to several violation cases of seafarers' collective agreements and of ILO Convention 137 in the port. In response, Port of Oslo and the City Government in Oslo organized a dialogue meeting on 13 October, focusing on the fight against social dumping.

‘Slavery is not yet ended’, said Archbishop Sanchez Sorondo of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences Slavery at the 24th World Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea in Taiwan. The Congress titled, ‘Caught in the Net’ focused specifically on the welfare and lives of fishermen around the world.

Despite a recovery in cargo shipping markets, ship manning costs will remain suppressed as shipowners and operators continue to be financially challenged and the officer shortfall recedes, according to the latest Manning report by Drewry consultancy.

At the first meeting of a special Fishing Industry Safety Group in York, the UK’s federations proposed the development of a voluntary safety management system to help co-ordinate the preparation of the ILO C188 Work in Fishing Convention due early next year.