Ocean and Human Rights: One Ocean Equity and the Right to a Healthy, Sustainable Ocean for All
As part of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice, IHRB, Rafto and partners are convening an interactive roundtable which addresses the impact of ocean industries on marginalised coastal communities and the ecosystems on which they depend.
This session will explore the critical intersection of human rights and ocean health. It will address how 'One Ocean Equity' can guide efforts to protect resilient coastal communities and ecosystems, ensuring the human right to a clean and sustainable ocean for all, while advancing equity in ocean governance.
Human rights defenders and ocean experts will consider lessons from Nigeria, India and elsewhere on key challenges and risk mitigation strategies for collective action and leadership to support rights and resilience in these communities.
Speakers
Vidar Helgesen
Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
Astrid Puentes Riaño
UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Marit Warncke
Mayor of the City of Bergen
Peter Haugan
Lead Expert of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy; Policy Director at Institute of Marine Research; Professor of Oceanography at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen; past chair of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC of UNESCO)
Nnimmo Bassey
Director, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF)
Johnson Jament
Founder and Executive Director, Blue Green
Gabriella Kossmann
Senior Advisor Oceans, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Nathalie Komatitsch
Human Rights and Ocean Independent expert (« Knowing & Acting »)
For further information, please email Therese Jebsen or Frances House. Places are limited so you will need to register your attendance.
