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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 […]
WIOMSA 2022: Spotlighting Science in the Marine and Coastal Environment of the Western Indian Ocean
The Twelfth Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) Symposium brought together scientists, researchers, government and civil society officials, international organisations and stakeholders to share knowledge on innovative ocean science and systemic issues for sustainable ocean action. As highlighted in an earlier policy brief, there is a great need for transformative partnerships where challenges are […]
Navigating the future
On 24 October 2022, Dr Lynne Shannon (University of Cape Town, South Africa) gave an invited talk during the “6th Navigating the Future” workshop of the European Marine Board (see here). The workshop utilised a holistic perspective to highlight the science needed to achieve a broad societal understanding of the links between the ocean, the […]
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 […]
New UN e-learning course on gender and the environment
As part of our ongoing partnership with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Hub has developed a new e-learning course on gender and the environment, which builds on the Hub research on human rights and the protection of the environment The course is titled “Introductory Course on Gender and the Environment” and is available on […]
Spotlight on early-career researchers: Buhle Francis
My name is Buhle Francis, I am a scholar-activist based in the coastal town called Makhanda, where I work in the University currently known as Rhodes, in the Environmental Learning Research Centre (ELRC). I work with the coastal communities scattered along the coastline provinces of Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and KwaZulu Natal. In […]
