CIL Workshop on International Maritime Crimes: Legal Issues and Prospects for Co-operation in ASEAN
17 – 18 January 2011 | International Workshop (This event was by invitation only)
CIL organized a Workshop on International Maritimes Crimes: Legal Issues and Prospects for Co-operation in ASEAN on 17-18 January at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel in Singapore. The Workshop brought together international experts on the law of sea and transnational crimes, government officials from the 10 ASEAN countries and academics from around the world. The papers and discussions at the Workshop examined whether the current international law framework was adequate to combat serious international maritime crimes such as piracy, ship-hijacking, hostage-taking and maritime terrorism.
There was a general consensus at the Workshop on the following matters:
- Piracy and other international maritime crimes are likely to continue to be a problem in the region, but piracy in Southeast Asia is unlikely to become as serious a problem as it is off the Somali coast.
- Existing global conventions governing piracy, international terrorism and transnational organized crime provide adequate tools for States in a region to combat serious international maritime crimes.
- In their efforts to combat pirate activities off the coast of Somalia the international community was not using some of tools available under these global conventions.
- The major weaknesses in the existing legal regime are the failure of States to become parties to important global conventions and the failure of some States to effectively implement the global conventions which they have ratified.
- Means should be found to provide technical and legal assistance to developing countries to enable them to fully understand and implement the global conventions.
Workshop Report
The PDF version of the workshop report can be found here.
Country Reports
CIL published a series of country reports as part of its research project on international maritime crimes. The country reports cover the problems faced by States in effectively implementing global and regional conventions on international maritime crimes, and the ratification and implementation of such global conventions.
The analysis in the country reports was put together in a chapter in the book below on ratification and implementation of global conventions on piracy and maritime crimes.
Book Edited by Robert Beckman and J Ashley Roach
In 2012, CIL published the book Piracy and International Maritime Crimes in ASEAN: Prospects for Cooperation as part of its NUS Centre for International Law book series.
Information & Draft Agenda
