New York Times Urged To Continue Seafarers Rights Campaign

November 20, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Following the extremely positive news (in the past 24 hours) of the Irish governments announcement that it will guarantee migrant fishermen’s rights and labour conditions the Celtic League has written to the New York Times Editor (NYT) applauding

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EU Pressed on Exploitation of Migrant Fishermen

November 16, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League DOI has written to the EU Fisheries Directorate urging action to tackle abuse of migrant labour from the third world on trawlers registered in EU countries. We have cited recent allegations about Ireland and also

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Cold War Undersea Menace Returns to Haunt Fishermen

March 25, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Just two months after we speculated that increased tension between NATO and the Russian Federation could lead to deadly undersea activities which would pose a renewed threat to fishermen the first incident appears to have occurred. Last week

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