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Contributing to UN call on access to scientific progress
The Hub made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights on the human right to science, including access to and participation in scientific processes and sharing equitably in the benefits from scientific progress, with a view to bringing attention to the specific challenges and insights in ocean science, in November 2023. The […]
Spotlighting Ocean Defenders and the responsibilities of marine conservation organisations
Watch the webinar recording here. The Hub continues to explore, together with the United Nations and civil society and researchers’ networks how to bring greater visibility to the challenges faced by ocean defenders globally and the need to recognise and protect them as environmental human rights defenders (see also here). On 29 November 2023, Hub early-career researcher Taryn […]
Mapping marine and coastal socio-cultural uses in Algoa Bay, South Africa
Social and cultural interactions and connections to the coast and ocean include cultural, religious and spiritual practices, as well as uses based on livelihood, recreation and wellbeing. Participatory community mapping approaches can help map culturally significant areas along the coastline, and in the context of Algoa Bay, South Africa, we have supported these approaches and […]
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 […]
New Learning Pathway on the One Ocean Learn Platform
Together with UNITAR our international, interdisciplinary group of leading experts in the ocean governance have carefully crafted new learning pathways Gender and the ocean Gender plays a crucial role in understanding and addressing the complex relationship between humanity and the ocean. Our learning pathway on gender and ocean, developed by Sarh Cummings (UNITAR) and Aphiwe […]
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 […]
