HRAS started as a simple concept of providing an independent document of model guidance for implementing human rights at sea.
This initial concept was, however, rapidly overtaken in response to multiple enquiries and requests from many areas within the maritime industry to address other issues such as migrants, refugees, slavery, trafficking, children’s rights, investigative and welfare services, and the development of HRAS Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects to mirror the General Principles of the 2011 United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, otherwise known as the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework in the maritime sector.
The initiative’s aim is to explicitly raise awareness, implementation and accountability for human rights protections throughout the maritime industry, especially where they are currently absent and being abused, while its vision is four-fold. That being:
Increased global awareness of the explicit requirement for protection of, respect for and provision of remedies in relation to human rights at sea and abuses thereof.
Continued international development of effective, enforceable and accountable remedies for human rights abuses at sea.
Independent and effective State, business and individual lobbying in support of the concept of human rights at sea.
Global awareness of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the maritime environment and throughout the maritime industry based upon the HRAS initiative.
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