Sarah Lewis
Undercurrents: Art and Ocean in Africa and the Pacific
The Glasgow School of Art is pleased to host Undercurrents: Art and Ocean in Africa and the Pacific at the Reid Gallery, 15 – 29 April 2023. The exhibition brings together new arts-based research that reveals human relationships and emotional connections with the ocean, produced by practitioners and grassroot organisations in Ghana, South Africa, Solomon […]
Suggesting new areas of work for IPBES
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has called for inputs and suggestions on its work programme up to 2023 from international and regional scientific organisations, non-governmental organisations, indigenous peoples and local communities and the private sector, which will be considered at the tenth session of the IPBES Plenary (28 August-2 September 2023, […]
Reflecting on Women’s Rights to a Healthy Ocean, based on the 2023 Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
“Urgent, gender-transformative, rights-based climate and environmental action” is required to achieve gender equality and ecological sustainability– recently said the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment in his thematic report on women’s and girls’ human right to a healthy environment (A/HRC/52/33). Although the report does not refer often to women’s and girls’ human […]
The One Ocean Hub Contributes to the UN General Comment on Children’s Rights and a Healthy Environment
Following the One Ocean Hub’s positive initial feedback on Zero Draft UN General Comment No. 26 on children’s rights and the environment, with a special focus on climate change (Zero Draft). The General Comment was released in November 2022 and included reference to biodiversity and the ocean, which was warmly welcomed across our networks. The […]
How can national human rights institutions and international human rights mechanisms support the protection of small-scale fishers’ human rights?
How are national and international human rights actors using, and might use in future use, their respective mandates to promote and protect the rights of small-scale fishers, fish workers and their communities? As part of our partnerships for the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, on 1 – 2 February 2023, we co-organised with […]
EARTH Scholarship brings Hub researcher Buhle Francis to the UK to deepen research on justice, gender and ocean livelihoods
Hub early-career researcher Buhle Francis (Rhodes University, South Africa) has been awarded an EARTH scholarship by the British Council Scotland, which is thematically focused on environmental arts and humanities and their interdisciplinary connection. The scholarship will support Buhle to undertake research at the University of Strathclyde (UK) from April-July 2023. Her research project is titled […]
Strengthening knowledge on national policy and law and their alignment with the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines
As part of our ongoing partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Hub researchers from Ghana, Namibia and South Africa have contributed to the development and launch of a new international database that serves to identify relevant national law and policy instruments for small-scale fisheries and to assess whether there […]
Exploring the way forward from IYAFA on small-scale fishers’ human rights
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has invited the Hub to contribute to the closing events of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) in Rome on 31 March 2023, building on our intense collaboration on the protection of the human rights of small-scale fishers as a way to achieve multiple Sustainable Development […]
Exploring the Relationship Between the Ocean, Justice, and Human Rights
Hub research continues to advance understanding of the interdependence of human rights and the ocean by revealing the continued connections to the ocean of displaced communities and reflecting on the legacies of marine dispossession. This blog post highlights the One Ocean Hub’s contributions at the “Oceans, Justice and Human Rights” conference which was held as […]
