Laura Meriläinen
Anchoring small-scale fishers’ rights in South Africa: Our ocean commons for a just future
The Coastal Justice Network organised a National Workshop for small-scale fishers in Gqeberha, South Africa, on 25-26th October 2023, to support small-scale fisher leaders in engaging on issues pertaining to the Ocean Economy Master Plan and Marine Spatial Planning and defending their rights as a sector in these processes. Background The organisation of the workshop […]
Workshops on climate change and Marine Spatial Planning held in Namibia
In September 2023, Hub researchers in Namibia held a series of workshops in partnership with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (Cefas, UK) under the theme “fair and inclusive decision-making for a healthy ocean whereby people and planet flourish”. In the workshops, the researchers engaged with fishers, managers, scientists, policy makers and anyone […]
Calling attention to children ocean defenders
Early-career researcher Sophie Shields and Hub Director Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK), made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders on child and youth human rights defenders, with a view to highlight the role and risks of children environmental human rights defenders at the ocean-climate nexus. The Hub submission identified […]
Hub’s arts-based research collaboration shortlisted at the Times Higher Education Awards
The One Ocean Hub has been shortlisted in this year’s Times Higher Education Awards (THE Awards) in the ‘International Collaboration of the Year’ category. The nomination celebrates the play ‘Lalela uLwandle’ (Listen to the Sea) developed by Empatheatre and Hub researchers with communities along the KwaZulu-Natal coast in South Africa. The play has offered decision-makers […]
Hub becomes implementing partner of the UN Ocean Decade
We are delighted to announce that in October 2023 the One Ocean Hub has been endorsed as the UN Ocean Implementing Partner. Under this mandate, the Hub will offer a comprehensive methodology for profound understanding of the ocean, upholding inclusive, respectful, and fair ocean research practices across Global North and South through our program entitled “Transdisciplinary […]
Better understanding the negative impacts of international investment law for human rights and the environment
The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, and the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights have raised the alarm about the negative impacts on the environment and on human rights of foreign investment in offshore energy projects, deep-seabed mining and other blue economy initiatives, relying on evidence provided by the […]
Breaking Barriers around One Health
The Hub was invited to share transferable findings from legal, inter- and trans-disciplinary research on human rights, equity and human/planetary health at an international, invitation-only workshop “Breaking Barriers: Advancing the One Health Agenda with a Focus on Environment” (12-13 October, Berlin, Germany). The event was organised by the German Federal Ministries of Economic Cooperation and […]
Hub researchers selected as Experts of the UN Regular Process on the Marine Environment
Hub researchers Dr Senia Febrica (University of Strathclyde, UK), Dr Sebastian Hennige (University of Edinburgh, UK), Prof Jeremy Hills (University of the South Pacific, Fiji) and Dr Sian Rees (University of Plymouth, UK) have been selected as members of the Pool of Experts of the UN Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the […]
Contributing to the UN Ocean Conference’s “A call to all the voices of the ocean”
The preparations for the 2025 UN Ocean Conference that will be held in June 2025 in Nice, France are already underway, and as part of the preparatory process the “A call to all the voices of the ocean” Synthesis Report was published in September 2023, to which the One Ocean Hub was a contributor. The […]
