info-sheet: human rights impacts of ocean plastics

By Elisa Morgera, Stephanie Switzer, Graham Hamley (University of Strathclyde)

Fishers in South Africa. Photo: Eric Nathan

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THIS INFORMATION-SHEET INTRODUCES:

• The negative impacts of ocean plastics on everyone’s human rights
• The substantive and procedural obligations of States to protect human rights in the
context
• The responsibility of business to respect human rights in this context