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Investigation finds luxury yachts are used to smuggle migrants into EU; 8 Ukrainian smugglers arrested in Italy
Commentary: "The human rights responsibilities of commercial vessels when rescuing migrants at sea"
Author: Nikolas Feith Tan, Aarhus Univ. & Danish Institute for Human Rights, on Rights!
"The human rights responsibilities of commercial vessels when rescuing migrants at sea", 25 Jan 2016...
At least 14 dead in Ukraine after passenger boat capsizes in choppy waters
Author: Russia Today
At least 14 people have been killed after a ship taking passengers back from a fishing trip sank near Odessa, on the Black Sea coast. Authorities blame the owners of the vessel for going out despite weather warnings, and failing to provide life...
Ukraine: 14 killed, 20 hospitalised after privately-owned boat capsizes; authorities say it was overcrowded, did not have enough life jackets
Overcrowded boat capsizes in Black Sea, killing 14 people
Author: Kyiv Post
A boat carrying 36 people capsized near the Black Sea city of Zatoka in Odessa Oblast...Fourteen people drowned, 18 of the surviving passengers were hospitalized. The boat was overloaded, the authorities say. The boat “Ivolga” was overturned by a wave...
Foreign fishing boat crew alleging abuse could be deported [New Zealand]
Author: TVNZ
The crew of a foreign fishing vessel could be deported…before their claims of abuse and intimidation can…be investigated. The Indonesian fishermen have received backing for their allegations by a group of Auckland academics who say they have found...
Volga court sanctions arrests of two suspects in deadly ship tragedy [Russia]
Author: RIA Novosti
A district court in Kazan, the capital of Russia's Volga Republic of Tatarstan, ruled...to arrest two suspects in the Bulgaria tour ship tragedy, the Russian Investigation Department said. The twin-deck riverboat Bulgaria capsized and sank on the...
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Cruise line given power over schoolies [Australia]
Author: Sydney Morning Herald
Carnival Australia, which operates P&O Cruises, asked the Australian Human Rights Commission for a temporary exemption from the Age Discrimination Act. The cruise operator argued that teenagers taking part in the end-of-school celebrations put the...
- Related companies: Carnival P&O (part of Dubai World)
[full list] The Toxic 100: Top Corporate Air Polluters in the United States
Author: Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), Univ. of Massachusetts [USA]
1. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours [DuPont], 2. United States Steel , 3. ConocoPhillips, 4. General Electric , 5. Eastman Kodak, 6. Exxon Mobil, 7. Ford , 8. Tyson Foods, 9. Alcoa, 10. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), 11. Dow Chemical, 12. Eastman Chemical, 13....
- Related companies: 3M AES AK Steel Alcoa Allegheny Energy Allegheny Technologies Altria Ameren American Electric Power Anheuser-Busch (part of Anheuser-Busch InBev) Archer Daniels Midland Armstrong ArvinMeritor Ashland Ball Corp. BD (Becton, Dickinson) Berkshire Hathaway Boeing Brunswick Chevron Cinergy (now Duke Energy) ConocoPhillips Constellation Energy Corning Crown Holdings Dana Danaher Delphi Dominion Resources Dow Chemical Duke Energy DuPont Eastman Chemical Company Eastman Kodak El Paso Energy Emerson Electric Engelhard (part of BASF) Exelon ExxonMobil Federal-Mogul FirstEnergy Ford General Electric General Motors Georgia-Pacific (part of Koch Industries) Goodrich Goodyear Great Lakes Chemical Harley-Davidson Heartland Industrial Partners Hercules Hess Corporation Honeywell ICI Illinois Tool Works International Paper John Deere Kerr-McGee (now part of Anadarko) Kimberly-Clark Lear Leggett & Platt Lyondell (part of Access Industries) Marathon Oil MeadWestvaco Mirant Mohawk Industries Monsanto Northrop Grumman Nucor Occidental Petroleum Owens Corning Pfizer Phelps Dodge (part of Freeport-McMoRan) Plum Creek PPG Praxair Premcor (part of Valero Energy) Procter & Gamble Progress Energy Public Service Enterprise Group Reliant Energy Rohm & Haas (part of Dow Chemical) Rowan Companies Shaw Group Smurfit-Stone Southern Company Stanley Works Sunoco TECO Energy Temple-Inland Tesoro Textron Tyco Tyson United States Steel United Technologies Valero Energy Visteon Weyerhaeuser Xcel Energy