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.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights' guidance for National Human Rights Institutions on how to engage with the Blue Economy.
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Report: A Human Rights Due Diligence guide for companies in the fisheries value chain (Feb 24)
Guidance from the Danish Institute for Human Rights that aims to help companies in the fisheries value chain on human rights due diligence
A video from Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) on the Ororo -1 Well that has been burning for three years off the coast of Nigeria
A report from the National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), India
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ian Urbina discusses the many forms of human rights violations at sea
Report by Danish Institute for Human Rights (in Spanish)
Report by Theresa Gigova on how businesses can tackle Fiji's entrenched gender inequality
Guidance on ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111) by the Danish Institute for Human Rights
A report from The International Pole and Line Foundation on how seafood companies meet human rights challenges whilst ensuring social equity for small-scale fisheries
Comprehensive report published by Frontiers that identifies areas of urgent action to protect and support ocean defenders
Guide from the Danish Institute for Human Rights on international fisheries instruments.
Analysis, Implications and Recommendations (Working Draft) for NHRIs from the Danish Institute for Human RIghts
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
A sector-wide impact assessment (SWIA) of human rights in the salmon industry in Chile, from from the Danish Institute of Human Rights
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