Seafarers’ Human Rights: Compliance and Enforcement

governance of the world’s seas and oceans requires new ways of thinking and new ways of doing things that are fundamentally different from the established modes of terrestrial governance that have been built on the traditional foundation of state freedom and sovereignty. This ‘oceans perspective’, initially given voice by Professor Elisabeth Mann Borgese beginning in the late 1960s on the eve of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, be-came the hallmark of her efflorescent advocacy. Both a vision and an evolving action-oriented programme, the oceans perspective was vigorously pressed by Elisabeth as only the gentle and caring ‘Mother of the Oceans’ that she was could have done.