Alix Valenti – BlueRights

October 22, 2026

Published by Alix Valenti on October 22, 2026

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BlueRights Voices: Is Everything Really Shipshape?

Ships may appear highly ordered, but what happens when responsibility for the people on board is divided between owners, managers, employers and crewing agencies? In the first BlueRights Voices conversation, Sandhya Drew explains how fragmented responsibility can leave seafarers without clear protection, and why, in cases of abandonment, a supposedly secure workplace can become somewhere they are unable to leave.

October 22, 2026

Published by Alix Valenti on October 22, 2026

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Right to Life at Sea – Navigating Peace, War and Uncertainty

How can the right to life be protected across the many legal and operational realities of the sea? This BlueRights conference in Tromsø will bring together research on search and rescue, maritime security and conflict, and occupational risks to examine where protection works, where gaps remain, and how greater coherence and accountability can be achieved.

October 21, 2026

Published by Alix Valenti on October 21, 2026

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Call for Abstracts: Right to Life at Sea – Navigating Peace, War and Uncertainty

What does the right to life require at sea — in peace, conflict and uncertainty? BlueRights Working Group 1 invites submissions for the international conference Right […]

September 18, 2026

Published by Alix Valenti on September 18, 2026

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Research on the Move: BlueRights STSMs in Action

From Arctic search and rescue to maritime labour, migration law and communications, BlueRights members are using Short-Term Scientific Missions to deepen research, access new expertise and build collaborations across Europe. These four missions show what changes when researchers work in a different environment — and how mobility can turn new perspectives into stronger research and wider impact.

September 18, 2026

Published by Alix Valenti on September 18, 2026

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Events

60th Anniversary of the Covenants: Bridging Rights Gaps for Vulnerable People

Marking 60 years of the UN International Covenants on Human Rights, this conference in Tbilisi will explore how human rights protection can better respond to vulnerable people. BlueRights sessions will focus on the right to health at sea, seafarers’ wellbeing, mental health vulnerabilities, and the legal and governance challenges shaping protection in maritime environments.

September 18, 2026

Published by Alix Valenti on September 18, 2026

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The Seafarers’ Bill of Rights Turns 20: Assessing the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

Twenty years after the adoption of the Maritime Labour Convention, this high-level panel will examine what the “Seafarers’ Bill of Rights” has achieved, where implementation gaps remain, and how it can be strengthened for the future. Bringing together voices from across the maritime sector, the discussion will focus on turning legal standards into effective protection and decent work for seafarers.

September 17, 2026

Published by Alix Valenti on September 17, 2026

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When the Workplace Becomes a Conflict Zone: Seafarers in the Strait of Hormuz

As attention focuses on shipping and energy supplies in the Strait of Hormuz, BlueRights members Patricia Kennedy, Anita Rayegani and Eka Siradze turn the lens onto the people aboard the ships — including the difficult question of whether seafarers can actually refuse to sail through a conflict zone.

September 17, 2026

Published by Alix Valenti on September 17, 2026

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Train the Trainers: Strengthening Seafarers’ Living and Working Conditions at Sea

From seafarer abandonment to health, safety and working conditions, this three-day Training School in Ankara explored how knowledge and training can strengthen the protection of people working at sea.

September 15, 2026

Published by Alix Valenti on September 15, 2026

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When Passage Is No Longer Innocent

In this EJIL: Talk! post, Professor Anna Petrig examines whether serious human rights violations on board a vessel can affect the innocence of passage under UNCLOS, and whether international human rights law or transnational criminal law may turn coastal State powers into duties to act. The post explores legal uncertainty around jurisdiction, non-innocent passage, accountability, and the protection of people at sea.