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Jenssen champions safer shipbreaking.
(From Lloyds List)
Ingvild Jenssen is co-ordinator for the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking.
She became involved with the organisation in September 2005 after it was realised by some of the few non-governmental organisations working on the issue 'that a broader base of support both geographically and in orientation was needed to challenge the political clout of the global shipping industry, and to work effectively in Europe where solutions are most likely to be born.'
Ms Jenssen says that as a result of increased political momentum, in part generated by the platform itself, the coalition has evolved from being a European platform to a global one, including environmental, human and labour rights organisations as well as NGOs based in India and Bangladesh, the largest shipbreaking countries.
As a political scientist, Ms Jenssen had been dealing with human rights and multi-level governance issues. 'The systematic human rights abuses linked to shipbreaking ...
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