(With video) Seafarers' Rights International (SRI) has released a short film designed to raise awareness of the ever present risk of seafarers facing abandonment.
Drawing on situations where seafarers were abandoned, the film by SRI highlights the inhumane conditions that abandoned seafarers face, and warns seafarers how to avoid being abandoned as well as what they can do if they are.
Maritime Labour Convention Amendment
Concerns about the blight of abandonment have been the focus of expert tripartite meetings amongst seafarers, shipowners and governments since 2001. These discussions culminated in a proposed amendment to the Maritime Labour Convention agreed in April 2014, which should come into force in early 2017.
