Sarah Lewis
Mapping for justice: towards an accessible, transparent database of mining along the West Coast of South Africa
One Ocean Hub (OOH) researchers, at the Environmental and Geographical Science Department of the University of Cape Town, have been monitoring, documenting, and mapping the many prospecting, mining, and oil and gas activities on the west coast of South Africa. Over the past two years this work has highlighted the rapid increase in the number […]
New one ocean learn learning pathway on ocean and climate change is published
The knowledge-translation platform One Ocean Learn has published a new learning pathway titled ‘Ocean and Climate Change’. The pathway covers a wide range of subjects, from the ocean’s role in regulating the global climate to climate change impacts on marine life and ecosystems, from the recognition of the role of the ocean in the context […]
Spotlight on early-career researcher: Andrea Longo
Hi! My name is Andrea Longo, I am a Research Associate in Law based at the University of Strathclyde since April 2023. I defended my PhD in June this year at the crossroad between international human rights law and the law of the sea – specifically fisheries law – and addressed the protection of people […]
DEEP Fund projects highlighting Indigenous connections to the ocean presented to local community and decision-makers in Vanuatu
Following the highly successful launch of the Undercurrents exhibition in Glasgow, and subsequent pavilion at Somerset House in London as part of the 2023 Design Biennale, recent DEEP Fund activities have shifted focus back to project partner countries. Intrinsic to the DEEP Fund is a commitment to support dissemination and engagement activities proposed by project […]
Breaking Barriers: Advancing the One Health Agenda with a Focus on Environment
Upcoming Event Hub Director, Prof Elisa Morgera, has been invited to “Breaking Barriers: Advancing the One Health Agenda with a Focus on Environment,” on 12-13 October 2023 in Berlin, Germany as a speaker to a Breakout Session on the topic of “connecting to policy & legal frameworks.” The event is organised by: the German Federal […]
FAO Workshop: Towards creating an enabling environment for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries.
UPCOMING EVENT The Food and Agriculture Organisations of the United Nations (FAO) invited the Hub’s Director, Prof Elisa Morgera, to attend a workshop organised under the FAO project Creating an Enabling Environment for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (GCP/GLO/965/SWE) that will be held on 14–16 November 2023 in Rome, Italy. This project was designed to contribute […]
The second Hub-led special issue is online: Applying a Human Rights Lens to the Ocean-Climate Nexus
The latest special issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law addresses priority research questions identified on the basis of the interdependencies of human rights, the climate and the ocean in several international processes and fora. The special issue includes two inter-disciplinary articles across the marine, social and legal sciences, as well as international law articles by early-career researchers. Among […]
Advancing considerations of equity in the negotiations of the Pandemic Treaty
Questions of equity have been centre-stage in discussions around how we might better respond to future pandemic disease events. In the aftermath of significant global inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic around issues such as vaccine access, Member States of the World Health Organisation (WHO) have been negotiating on an international legal instrument – the Pandemic Treaty, […]
Taking a human rights-based approach to shipping
A recent report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics, Marcos Orellana, highlights the relevance of the work of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) for human rights (A/HRC/54/25/Add.2), and calls on the IMO to embrace an explicit human rights-based approach. In this blogpost, we summarise key recommendations relevant to marine biodiversity and meaningful participation in […]
