European and international Human Rights At Sea

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The European and international Human Rights at Sea (EHRAS) project aims at addressing an emerging issue in EU studies by developing a 42 hours course on European and international human rights at sea, to be taught at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy), together with a lecture series open to participants from outside the university and an open conference, which will involve academics and stakeholders. The project will achieve four specific objectives: educate the future generation of lawyers on how to apply European and international human rights law at sea; educate present and future national stakeholders – government officials, legal practitioners, national and international civil servants, civil society actors, armed forces and the media – on the concrete international and EU legal and political instruments applicable to enhance human rights protection at sea within the EU; generate knowledge among EU policy-makers on the Union’s and the Member States’ obligations and on the concrete instruments to adequately enforce them; and trigger debate at the EU and international level on the need for a global strategy to address the various instances of human rights violations at sea in a holistic and organized manner. Beneficiaries of the project include university students; national and European stakeholders, including civil servants; governmental officials; national judges and lawyers; members of the armed forces; members of civil society. Expected results include organizing the first ever course on European and international human rights at sea and publishing a leading collection of essays on the conceptual and practical issues raised by the application of human rights at sea, which will guide research policy action in this field for the coming years.