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Read our latest newsletter for news from across the CCI Network! 👇. 📚Transboundary learning in Sulu Sulawesi seascape.🌱Reviving ecosystems in Southern Apulia Landscape.💪Scaling deep in support of women & girls.📢Spotlighting the right to a healthy ocean at #UNOC3!

RT @swiotuna: 🌊 At #UNOC3 in Nice, SWIOTUNA amplified the voices of small-scale fishers from the SW Indian Ocean on the global stage. 📖 Rea….

RT @UN_FAO_GFCM: #GFCM_SAC: discussing small-scale fisheries. During the past year, +68 small-scale fishers and stakeholders participated i….

“Economic development does not negate #HumanRights” Matai Zamuël, @WWFGuianas Youth Ambassador & ocean defender. Collaborative action is needed to support #CoastalCommunities & uphold the right to a healthy ocean in the face of a growing #ocean economy. #UNOC3📽️@seavoiceonline

“We're talking about an #ocean that supports the food security, supports the livelihoods, supports the cultural identity of coastal communities, so when this ocean is degraded [. ] this directly affects the #HumanRights of #SSFs”. @DivonMwamba of @swiotuna speaking @ #UNOC3 👏👏

RT @swiotuna: Thanks all for joining our UNOC3 side event Securing the Socio-Economic Rights of Small-Scale Fishers in the SWIO Region.” We….

Brainstorming ways to accelerate the implementation of the @FAO #SSFGuidelines through #data systems that are inclusive & led by #fishers - key to advancing governance of #SmallScaleFisheries . 📷@mariahonig moderating the session, led by a brilliant collaboration of partners 🌊

“There really is a role for everyone to support the #HumanRight to a healthy #ocean & to step up in support of ocean defenders around the world.”. @nathanjbennett shares how we can take action in support of #CoastalCommunities & the right to a healthy ocean👇. 📽️@seavoiceonline

What strategic alliances are needed to embed #HumanRights in #ocean governance? @maria_honig of @ACCLCInitiative will explore the role of human rights actors in promoting accountability & supporting #CoastalCommunities at this #UNOC3 side event TODAY 🌊👇

RT @NANHRI40: What do human rights have to do with ocean governance?.On World Ocean Day, as part of our collaboration with the Danish Insti….

RT @wwf_media: "Let's also be blunt: Too many well-intentioned commitments are going unfulfilled. It’s time to break the bottlenecks, stren….

“Winning teams don’t hope for victory, they work for it!” Check out the #TeamOcean Playbook from WWF and explore 20 key messages for halting and reversing the loss of nature in the #ocean. 👀👉

Rounding out the event, @pepeclarke & Efraim Gomez of @WWF spoke to the need to commit to the protection of the #HumanRight to a healthy #ocean, & to take a human rights-based approach in all ocean actions. Check out WWF's Team Ocean Playbook for more 👀👉

.@astridpuentes Riaño draws on her recent #UN report to provide an overview of the human rights issues in the #ocean environment, emphasizing the role of #governments & the private sector in addressing them. Find the report here 👉

Our first panel: “From #community perspectives to the big picture” sees presentations from artisanal #fishermen Julian Media Salgado (🇨🇴) & Rommel Todd (🇬🇫), & @astridpuentes Riaño, Special Rapporteur on the human right to a healthy #environment.

@NathanJBennett As the #OceanEconomy accelerates, so too do the impacts on the #marine environment & on people, with #HumanRights violations - from labour abuses to overfishing & #IUU fishing - taking a huge toll on the welfare & wellbeing of #CoastalCommunities. 🧵4/4.

@NathanJBennett Growing global demand for resources & declines in land based resources have seen an unprecedented increase in the scale & speed of development of the #OceanEconomy, incl. expansion into new areas, intensification of economic activities, & emergence of new ocean industries🧵3/4.

@NathanJBennett International law recognises that there are a universal set of human rights that are fundamental to human wellbeing, spanning #economic, #social & #cultural rights, civil & political rights, rights of #IndigenousPeoples, & the right to a clean, healthy & sustainable #ocean🧵2/4.

LIVE from our event at #UNOC3, Human Rights & the Ocean Environment, @NathanJBennett is speaking to the need to foster greater dialogue about how to move from recognition to the implementation of the human right to a healthy ocean. 🌊.🧵1/4