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Impact and people

2006

  1. Abandoned but not lost: Towards global protection for abandoned seafarers

    07 December 2006

    The complexities of globalization and its impact on shipping have made helping seafarers abandoned in foreign ports more pressing than ever. A recently created ILO database on reported incidents of abandonment of seafarers ( Note 1) is the first step in this direction. Since January 2004, the database has registered 40 cases of abandonment worldwide.