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The ILO calls for full respect of seafarers’ rights and for the vaccination of seafarers The ILO is calling on governments to treat seafarers as key workers and to cooperate to make vaccines available to them at the earliest opportunity, to allow them to pass through international borders and keep global supply chains moving. These appeals are reflected in two resolutions adopted during the Special Tripartite Committee (STC) of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006), which brought together more than 100 governments, seafarers and shipowners, who met virtually from 19 to 23 April 2...

An Elephant in the Garden based on the book by Michael Morpurgo April 5, 2021 Last updated: April 5, 2021 I do wonder whether the German accent was strictly necessary. Elizabeth (Alison Reid), or Lizzie, as she was invariably called, is excited at the news of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and sets about reminiscing about the Second World War. A resident of Dresden, she just about managed to escape with her mother: 13 February 1945 marked her sixteenth birthday, which seems more than a little contrived for anyone who knows the significance of that date – the beginning of a sustained aerial b...

By Holly Pate In the tiny Pacific island nation of Fiji, nearly a thousand men, mostly from Tonga, have been stranded for months, with no way to get home. In Kiribati, a hundred men are in the same bind. Similar situations are occurring in Egypt and Canada. Tens of thousands of seafarers are entering the holiday season away from their families, having been desperately abandoned in countries scattered around the globe as COVID-19 has closed airports in their native countries, which tend to be smaller and lacking in the capacity to handle the logistics or health care personnel to handle mass re...

Overflow, Bush Theatre review – fear, fury and fun | reviews, news & interviews Overflow, Bush Theatre review – fear, fury and fun Overflow, Bush Theatre review – fear, fury and fun New monologue is a shout out for trans and non-gender-conforming rights by Aleks SierzSaturday, 12 December 2020 Toilet sanctuary: Reece Lyons in ‘Overflow’.Sharron Wallace Travis Alabanza is black, trans, queer and proud. And they’ve got a lot to be proud about. In 2016, they were the youngest recipient of the artist in residence post on the Tate workshop programme, and two years later st...