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Current Maritime Labour Law Issues

— An internationally uniform Identity Document for Seafarers

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This article reviews the achievements of the recently adopted Convention on Seafarers’ Identity Documents (Revised) 2003, (No.185) adopted by the International Labour Conference of the International Labour Organization. Convention No.185 constitutes a pioneering, comprehensive and sophisticated response to security concerns in the modern world, including the necessary safeguards for individual rights. The objective of the Convention is to ensure that seafarers can be trusted and their hardship minimized.

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  2. The SOLAS 1974 Convention and a list of its amendments can be found on the IMO’s website at:http://www.imo.org/Conventions/contents.asp?topic_id=257&doc_id=647.

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  20. These were held in June/July 2002, October 2002 and February 2003. These reports can be accessed through the ILO website, http://www.ilo.org.

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Doumbia-Henry, C. Current Maritime Labour Law Issues. WMU J Marit Affairs 2, 129–148 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03195040

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