Protection of Liberty at Sea
Sub-working groups
Sub-working gorup 2.1
The SWG will address how the right to personal freedom may be negatively impacted in the course of arrest or similar measures of deprivation of liberty taking place at sea, as well as during formal or informal detention at sea, by either the master of the vessel of by state organs on board other vessels. The SWG will identify what specific rules have been developed with respect to the maritime environment and will draw comparisons with similar rules developed with respect to dry land, in order to evaluate whether the existing legal framework adequately protects the right to liberty of the person and advance suggestions about further development of the rules in this area.
Sub-working group 2.2
The SWG will focus on deprivation of liberty as a consequence of practices amounting to (modern) slavery and forced labour taking place at sea. The SWG will also address trafficking of persons, to the extent that this takes place at sea. the SWG will aim at assessing the existing legal framework, in order to identify the extent to which it achieves the aim of protecting liberty of the person, will identify best practices, and will advance suggestions for normative, administrative, and other changes to better fight against these forms of slavery and ensure that all persons at sea may enjoy liberty of the person.