This section contains various reports, guidances, briefings, and meeting reports published by the Ocean and Human Rights Platform.
It also contains selected publications from external sources covering ocean and human rights issues. Publications from external organisations are labelled (Ext) and following those links will take you away from the Ocean Platform website.
To have your publication listed here, please contact Francesca Fairbairn.
The Ocean Platform has also produced a series of topic briefings covering the business and human rights aspects of all ocean industries - these can be found on the Topic Briefings page.
Report by HOMEF on a project between community people, academics, media, public health professional and the UNODC
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Toolkit: For Ocean Defenders
Useful toolkit produced by HOMEF
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Report: Navigating Human Rights
A guide by DanishShipping to human rights due diligence and salient human rights issues in shipping
An overview by the Danish Institute of Human Rights of the Isla Huapi electrification project as an example of good practice of collaboration between state, company and Indigenous community
BHRRC evaluates the human rights policies and practices of 15 of the largest global renewable energy companies
A code of conduct for shipping companies and charterers to improve the human rights and welfare of the world’s nearly two million seafarers
A sector-wide impact assessment (SWIA) of human rights in the salmon industry in Chile, from from the Danish Institute of Human Rights
A self-assessment questionnaire that provides guidance for shipowners and operators on how to meet the Code of Conduct as well as how to track progress
Practical guidance that maps current regulations, business standards and best and emerging practices for shipping - one of a series
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Practical Guidance for the UN Global Compact Sustainable Ocean Principles - Shipyards (Shipbuilding)
Practical guidance that maps current regulations, business standards and best and emerging practices for shipyards and in particular shipbuilding - one of a series
UN Global Compact's Maritime Transport and the COVID-19 Crew Change Crisis: A Tool to Support Human Rights Due Diligence
TFG's Francesca Mangano describes how a medium sized enterprise addressed seafarers' human rights during the pandemic
Highlights the voices of some of the seafarers at the centre of the Crew Change Crisis
Kate Pike discusses urgent efforts to address mental health of seafarers trapped at sea due to the pandemic
Jacqueline Smith of ITF discusses the 300,000 seafarers stranded due to the pandemic
Meeting report from a webinar discussing how to prevent forced labour and trafficking on distant water fishing fleets
Greenpeace's Andy Shen says 'What’s the Catch?' - forced labour and trafficking in the Taiwanese distant water fishing industry
Report from a meeting held in Bergen with companies from the salmon farming and aquaculture feed industries
TWC2 talks about crippling recruitment fees paid by migrant workers for low paid shipyard jobs in Singapore
Meeting report from Singapore roundtable on human rights across a ship's lifecycle
A former merchant marine engineer discusses the challenges of being a lone female amongst almost exclusively male crews
Meeting report from London roundtable on human rights in the shipping industry
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