Of “ships of shame” and the UN
It’s no longer news when the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) interdicts a ship. The union has been running after “ships of shame” for years. But it’s news when the ship in question is chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to carry food for hungry humans. On 18th October 2011, Mombasa-based ITF inspector Betty Makena Mutugi together with Spanish inspector Luz Baz boarded the Panama-flagged Sea Master 1 whilst it was moored in Mombasa, Kenya. The two were aghast at what they saw. We were, too, when we saw the pictures courtesy of the ITF. (more…)
