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MINERVA IN FOCUS

Headlines Interesting news
from the maritime
industry

ISWAN
launches

sector-wide

campaign

supporting
women

#Inclusivity

ISWAN has launched its global campaign: said ISWAN’s Projects and Relationships inclusive treatment, we felt that opening up
“Safe at sea…it takes all of us!”, focusing Manager and Campaign Lead Georgia a discussion about the benefits of allyship
on the role that men seafarers can take Allen. and collective responsibility was a more
as allies in support of women colleagues. “Although there is a significant focus positive and hopefully effective approach
In 2023, women were more than three across maritime to encourage more women to encouraging widespread awareness of
times as likely to contact ISWAN’s helplines seafarers to enter the workforce, which is these issues and long-term behavioural
about issues of abuse, bullying, harass- really positive, as a welfare organisation change. Let’s create onboard environments
ment, discrimination, and violence than we also want to highlight the sector’s re- where all are safe and all can thrive”.
men. They were also more than twice as sponsibility for ensuring the environments The campaign can be followed on social
likely to raise a mental health issue. they are being invited into are safe and media using the hashtags #CrewAllySHIP
“Through our helplines SeafarerHelp and that they will be treated equitably. Rather and #WeAllBelong.
YachtCrewHelp, we hear first-hand about than putting the responsibility on women
the challenges of being a woman seafarer” themselves to advocate for their fair and Source: IUMI

Global Women • The IMO Member State Survey
Member States were invited via a Cir-
in Maritime Survey 2024 cular Letter to appoint a Survey Focal
Point, who is tasked with collecting
the required information from the dif-
#DEI ferent entities/departments within their
government and filling out the Survey.
The second global Women in Maritime and proposing policies that will increase • Industry Survey
Survey is being conducted by the Inter- the participation of women in maritime. This Survey is designed to gather in-
national Maritime Organisation (IMO) and This helps in promoting a more diverse formation from companies, non-gov-
the Women's International Shipping & and inclusive environment in the maritime ernmental and intergovernmental
Trading Association (WISTA Internation- sector. A report containing the aggregate organisations, and private maritime
al). This Survey is run every three years numbers will be available to all interested training institutes/academies. The
to obtain baseline data on the number of parties via the IMO and WISTA International individual or department in charge
women in maritime and ocean fields and websites. of Human Resources or Personnel
the positions they occupy. The current Survey will run from September should fill out the form - and each
The Survey supports the implementation of to the end of December 2024. The final organisation should only take the
the United Nations Sustainable Develop- Report will be published in May 2025. Survey once.
ment Goals (SDGs) by having comparable Data gathering for the report is carried out
data that will assist in creating programmes via two surveys: Source: IMO

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