Laura Meriläinen

My name is Sophie Shields, and I am an early-career researcher from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. My research with the Hub focuses on interlinkages and intersections between children’s human rights and the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, including a healthy ocean. I am particularly interested in participatory human rights approaches and […]

Christian has conducted his research under the UN Nippon Fellowship on the law of the sea, as part of the Hub’s continued partnership with the UN Division on the Law of the Sea (UNDOALOS), at Strathclyde University Law School. In this blog post, Christian reflects on his research findings on Indigenous conservation through community-based resource […]

For the third year running, the Hub has collaborated with the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in  co-organising a series of panels for the GNHRE & UNEP Summer/Winter School for Human Rights & the Environment. This blog post summarises key messages highlighted by two […]

For the third year running, the Hub has collaborated with the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in  co-organising a series of panels for the GNHRE & UNEP Summer/Winter School for Human Rights & the Environment. This blog post summarises key messages highlighted by three […]

The next round of international negotiations of a new treaty on plastics is scheduled in November (International Negotiating Committee (INC-3)), also to deal with plastic pollution in the marine environment. A zero draft of the treaty has been produced by the Chair of the negotiations, with assistance from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Secretariat. This […]

Following the establishment of the much-anticipated mandate to integrate the ocean into all areas of work under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the 26th Conference of Parties in Glasgow (COP26) in November 2021, and encouragement for countries to implement national ocean-based climate action under the Paris Agreement in 2022 in […]

The One Ocean Hub organised four workshops for small-scale fisher (SSF) women in the four coastal regions (Central, Volta, Greater Accra and Western) of Ghana between 2021-2023. The workshops were a response to Hub research findings that are discussed in the newly published article by Harrison Golo and Bolanle Erinosho  ‘Tackling the challenges confronting women […]

The Hub raised critical questions related to the protection of ocean defenders, in responding to an invitation from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Secretary-General’s Executive Office to contribute to an online forum for the UN system and civil society organisations on 6th […]

Five major ocean research projects, representing over £50 million investment and 400 researchers from over 120 institutes from over 30 countries were brought together to distil shared key messages for policy makers in South Africa. A three-day science-to-policy workshop for marine ecosystem-based management was held at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (Cape Town, 22-24 […]