Publications
info-sheet: human rights impacts of ocean plastics
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 thecontext• The responsibility of business to respect human rights in this context
info-sheet: MARINE PLASTIC POLLUTION AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE ISSUE
THIS INFORMATION-SHEET INTRODUCES: The environmental justice dimensions of ocean plastic from the perspectives of:• Marginalized communities• Countries in the Global South• Those responsible for causing ocean plastic Photo: The problem of ocean plastics is visible in Ghana. @ Georgina Yaa Oduro
info-sheet: international legal responses to ocean plastics
THIS INFORMATION-SHEET INTRODUCES: • Existing international legal responses to ocean plastics• The search for new legal solutions internationally
info-sheet: What are marine litter and plastic pollution?
THIS INFORMATION-SHEET INTRODUCES: • The problem of ocean plastics, including negative impacts on biodiversity and on the climate• The current search for solutions internationally
Key messages: high-level event on small-scale fishers’ rights
High-Level Event for World Oceans Week 2022 Exploring Challenges, Opportunities and Alliances for the Protection of Small-scale Fishers’ Human Rights Common challenges The lack (and denial) of legal and de facto recognition of customary rights, collective rights, traditional rights, tenure rights, and historical dispossession. Lack of information on small-scale fishing rights, permits and permit conditions. […]
learning pathway on: Ocean, ocean knowledge and human rights
Learning about the ocean and sharing ocean knowledge is increasingly recognized as essential to contribute to the protection of human rights. As the UN Environment Programme summarized, the ocean: “The ocean is our support system”, as it produces ocean and contributes to the water cycle; “The ocean provides food, jobs and livelihoods, with an estimated annual economic […]
learning pathway on: Access to ocean data – equity and human rights dimensions
“We know more about outer space than we do about the ocean” – is a common, and very true, refrain. Access to ocean data is essential for understanding how healthy is the ocean, how effective our efforts are to protect it and use sustainably its resources, and how many benefits humanity and the planet derive from the ocean, […]
Learning pathway on: Learning from communities and respecting their knowledge
There is growing international recognition of, and interest in, the distinctive contributions of the knowledge of indigenous peoples and other communities to the realization of various international objectives, such as the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean, the protection of health and the availability of food. That said, “modern” or “western” science still tends […]
Enabling Transformative Biodiversity Governance in the Post-2020 Era
“Enabling Transformative Biodiversity Governance in the Post-2020 Era” in Visseren-Hamakers, I.J. and M. KoK (eds), Transforming Biodiversity Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2022) 341-360 The whole book is available open access here.
