How can companies and governments ensure respect for human rights on the ocean?

"The health of the waters itself matter to us because 50% of the air we breathe is purified by the water and quite specifically the marine life in the water."

Human rights violations on the high seas are widespread - in the 'wild watery west' there is precious little effective policing and the workforce is largely invisible. Yet the world's 1.8 million seafarers transport 80% of the world's trade and ensure fish is on our table.

What governance exists to protect them? And what more could business be doing to improve matters? 

Hear from Ian Urbina, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has been reporting on environmental and human rights crimes on the high seas for many years. Ian now runs the non-profit organisation Outlaw Ocean Project. In this episode of Voices he talks to IHRB's Francesca Fairbairn about maritime human rights violations and what governments and companies can do to improve respect for human rights on the ocean.

 

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