All publications: Shipping, fishing, inland waterways
Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 - Cooperative contributions to SDG 14
This brief is part of the Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 series produced by the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC). Through a series of 17 briefs, one for each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), COPAC...
Indonesia’s fisheries human rights certification system: assessment, commentary, and recommendations - Working Paper
This Working Paper looks at the process and status of the implementation of Indonesia’s fisheries human rights certification system and assesses its effectiveness and impact on working conditions in the Indonesian commercial capture fisheries sector.
Safety and health in ports (Revised 2016)
The text revises and updates the 2005 edition of: ILO code of practice safety and health in ports, which had replaced two former ILO publications: Guide to safety and health in dock work (1976) and Safety and health in dock work, An ILO code of...
Background Paper - Consultative Forum on Regional Cooperation Against Human Trafficking, Labour Exploitation, and Slavery at Sea (Bali,...
To build on the momentum of the TMIMF and to strengthen responses to trafficking of persons in fisheries, ILO’s Southeast Asia Fisheries Project aims to reduce trafficking for labour exploitation in fisheries by strengthening coordination in...
The flexibility clauses of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188)
This sectoral working paper discusses the various types of flexibility clauses found in the Work in Fishing convention, 2007 (No. 188), with a view to assisting those considering making use of these clauses when ratifying and implementing the...
MPHRP/ISWAN - Good Practice Guide for Shipping Companies and Manning Agents Humanitarian
Humanitarian support of seafarers and their families in cases of armed robbery and piracy attack (Version 2, 2016)
Decent work for migrant fishers
Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on Issues Relating to Migrant Fishers (Geneva, 18–22 September 2017)
Guidelines on flag State inspection of working and living conditions on board fishing vessels
P29 Report
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, and the fishing and seafood processing industries in Thailand
This document was prepared by an inter-disciplinary team of the ILO, including staff of the EU-funded Ship to Shore Rights Project, following extensive consultations conducted by the ILO in partnership with the Ministry of Labour. This analysis has...
C188 Report
Gap analysis of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188), and Thai national laws, regulations and other measures concerning...
This gap analysis of C188 was prepared by an inter-disciplinary team of the ILO, including staff of the EU-funded Ship to Shore Rights Project, following extensive consultations conducted by the ILO in partnership with the Ministry of Labour. This...
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Final evaluation summary
Improving labour law compliance and building sound labour practices in the export-oriented shrimp sector in Bangladesh
Project BGD/13/01/BGD
Report
Fishers first: Good practices to end labour exploitation at sea
This report is to present, analyse and share good practices and innovative interventions from around the world aimed at eradicating forced labour and other forms of labour exploitation in the fishing industry.
Promotion of Decent Work in Southern African Ports (phase II) - (Final Evaluation Summary)
Project SAF/13/01/M/FLA; SAF/14/02/M/NET - Evaluation consultant: Stanley M. Karuga
Decent work
Providing decent employment for Pacific fishers
This publication highlights promoting employment opportunities for Pacific Islanders on foreign fishing vessels and protecting fishers on board, envisaging the ratification of Fishing Convention (C188) by the Pacific Island Countries.
Child labour in the fish supply chain on Lake Volta, Ghana: The Torkor model
Decent work for seafarers
Decent work for seafarers and fair competition in shipping: Programme fact sheet
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 is a response to the global nature of seafarers employment, setting minimum standards for decent work covering working and living conditions.
Guidelines for implementing the occupational safety and health provisions of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006
The purpose of these guidelines is to assist States to implement the occupational safety and health provisions of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006).
Project
GAPfish - A Global action programme against forced labour and trafficking of fishers at sea
The recommendations of the Oslo Conference will, among other things, help to consolidate an ILO project proposal – The Global Action Programme against against forced labour and trafficking of fishers at sea (GAPfish) – which aims to tackle forced...
Oslo Conference background document
International expert meeting on labour exploitation in the fishing sector in the Atlantic region - Background document