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01 Jul 2020
Governments must protect trapped seafarers' human rights
As the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions put in place to attempt containment drag on, around 200,000 merchant seafarers are trapped aboard ships in...
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25 Jun 2020
Their story: the hunger striking seafarers at Tilbury trying to get home
Four months without pay and 48 hours without food, 47 seafarers off the coast of the UK are desperate to get home to their families. The mainly Indian crew are...
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25 Jun 2020
ITF Statement on ‘Day of the Seafarer’ 2020
Today is the ‘Day of the Seafarer’ a day when we should celebrate seafarers, but this year, as world’s seafarers are let down by governments there is little...
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22 Jun 2020
Crew Change Crisis: ITF and JNG Joint Statement
The ITF and the Joint Negotiating Group, along with the International Chamber of Shipping have worked tirelessly since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic on...
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22 Jun 2020
World’s seafarers welcome Pope Francis’ support at critical time in crew change crisis
On Wednesday, Pope Francis released a video statement in which he paid tribute to seafarers and fishers, and acknowledged the difficult challenges they have been...
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15 Jun 2020
Press Release
Enough is enough: World’s seafarers will now exercise right to leave ships amid Covid-19 failures
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and its affiliated seafarers’ unions will now assist hundreds of thousands of seafarers to exercise their...