News

August 2012

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   Labour standards

   Milestone ratifications of seafarers’ labour rights charter

   20 August 2012

   The ILO’s Maritime Labour Convention has now been ratified by 30 countries, meaning it will go into effect in a year’s time. The charter sets out the labour rights of the world’s 1.2 million seafarers.

June 2011

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   I-News

   Singapore, First Asian country to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

   15 June 2011

   Singapore has ratified the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) with the full support of tripartite partners – the seafarer unions and the National Trades Union Congress, as well as the maritime industry and the Singapore National Employers Federation.

July 2008

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   News item

   Indonesia ratifies ILO Convention n°185 on Seafarers’ identity documents

   16 July 2008

   The Government of Indonesia today handed over the instrument of ratification of the Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185) of the International Labour Organization.