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Published Apr 30, 2025 2:34 PM by Phil Schifflin

At the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI), we’ve spent over a century advocating for the dignity, safety, and welfare of the world’s seafarers. This April, as Director of SCI’s Center for Mariner Advocacy, I had the honor of joining the International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) delegation at the Fifth Meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee (STC) of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006), in Geneva. This meeting delivered...