Brussels Maritime Talks: Human rights perspectives at sea - Labour at sea

Brussels Maritime Talks: Labour at Sea

Although the maritime industry spans the globe and impacts us all, the issues of human rights at sea are rarely discussed, even less so on a platform which brings together the industry’s different stakeholders.

The Brussels Maritime Talks: Human Rights Perspectives at Sea aim to remedy this. At these events the BDA and Téthys Naval bring together practitioners, operators and advisors from the maritime industry for an interdisciplinary exchange on a specific area of human rights.

On 4 November the topic will be Labour at Sea.

The event will take place on the VUB campus from 9.00-17.00.

Participants will have the opportunity to hear from the following experts from leading organisations, and to engage in discussions relevant to both policy formation and daily life at sea.

CONTEXT SETTING
Moderator Judge Ida CARACCIOLO, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)

Labour Rights at Sea under UNCLOS & UDHR
Dorota LOST-SIEMINSKA, International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
Labour Conditions at Sea under MLC
Fernanda LUCK SANTOS CAFISO, International Labour Office (ILO)

PRACTITIONERS’ PERSPECTIVES
Moderator Prof. Dr. Cailin MACKENZIE, Brussels Diplomatic Academy (BDA)

Life at Sea
Patrick BOYENS, Koninklijk Belgisch Zeemanscollege (KBZ-CRMB)
Marine Protection
Steve TRENT, Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
Invest at Sea
Diana SANABRIA, Hapag-Lloyd AG
Justice at Sea
Philipp HERMES, Téthys Naval
Crisis at Sea
Julien RAICKMAN, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF)
Crime at Sea
Jamie WILLIAMSON, International Code of Conduct Association (ICoCA)