Global Shipbreaking reform Negociations called a failure

Calling it a shameful document which will likely do more harm than good, the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking1, a global coalition of environmental, labour and human rights organisations, rejected the current draft of the International Convention on Ship Recycling being finalised at the United Nations' International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The IMO Convention is an “instrument of greenwash” that will do nothing to prevent the shipping industry's scandalous export of toxic ships to inhuman (...) - Globalization & ESC Rights / Globalization

Source : fidh.org