UN LAW OF THE SEA
October 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE UNITED Nations General Assembly will be asked to consider the plight of seafarers so poorly paid that they work in conditions amounting to "slavery," when it considers relating to oceans and the Law of the Sea next month.A report for diplomats attending the meeting on November 27 to 28, from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, highlights the inquiry into ship safety by the International Commission on Shipping, which concluded that "for thousands of today's international seafarers, life at sea is modern slavery and their workplace is a slave ...
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