What are some of the meeting points between maritime law and human rights?

This week's reading presents a different aspect of maritime law: Human Rights. There is an evolution of the international human rights regime and the development of human rights. This week's reading is focused on several issues. Some issues were also discussed in previous weeks.This week, we analyze these issues as we focus on the human rights ramifications.

Please conduct research within the APUS library and through high quality academic resources available online to support your analysis for this Discussion as you focus on two of the scenarios discussed in the article in this week's reading.

• Compare and contrast the human rights challenges in each of your selected scenarios as well as the legal responses to them.
  • What are the principle traits of such challenges?
    • Have they existed for a long period or essentially remained the same?
    • Either way, how has that affected the legal responses to date, if at all?
  • What effect, if any, have maritime jurisdictional principles have on these human rights-related legal matters?
• Has international maritime law (including for both flag and coastal states) evolved in ways to try to address these problems, or has it been find solutions to modern challenges with outdated procedures or concepts?
  • Has the U.S. been any more (or less) successful than the larger international maritime legal scheme in this regard? Either way, how so?
• What do you think ought to at least be considered and/or tried as "best practices" under these circumstances (regardless of whether they have actually been used before; new ideas are welcome)? Why?
  • What kinds of legal tools, technology and/or procedures are needed for the success use of such best practices?