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Ocean Issues are Human Rights Issues | HRC58 Side Event

Life on Earth evolved from the ocean about 3.5 billion years ago. The ocean is the world’s largest biome, covering 70% of the Earth. Oceans and coastal areas have been essential for humanity to thrive, and are essential in many aspects, including for housing, transportation, food, culture, and leisure. A clean, healthy and sustainable ocean is critical for humanity’s survival, especially for Indigenous Peoples and coastal communities, and for the survival of healthy and sustainable ecosystems, which many species depend on. Despite the importance of the ocean, human-induced activities are causing significant environmental and climate impacts, some of them irreversible, to an extent that are also impacting the enjoyment of several human rights, including the right to a healthy environment, right to life, food, work, culture, among others. Harmful impacts are linked to unsustainable practices such as overfishing and pollution including from oil spills, oil and gas extraction, waste and sewage dump, plastic, and noise pollution from shipping vessels and other sources. For the 58th session of the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment decided to dedicate her report to the topic of the Ocean and Human Rights. The report considers the relationship between the ocean and human rights and why ocean issues are human rights issues. The report will contribute to the understanding of the ocean as a single biome and its significance within the framework of human rights, particularly in relation to marginalized people, communities and groups. The report is aimed at advancing adaptive, inclusive and evidence-based management measures to reduce the vulnerability of the ocean to harms from the triple planetary crisis and their cumulative impact on human rights (A/HRC/58/59). The Special Rapporteur identifies challenges to and opportunities for achieving a healthy ocean and sets out priority recommendations for States, United Nations entities and businesses. The Special Rapporteur recommends in her report that ocean related governance and efforts have a holistic approach centred in human rights, with the human right to a healthy environment at the center. This approach would enable comprehensive, participatory and intersectional governance, while incorporating decades of progress in human rights law. Through such a framework, States, the United Nations, businesses and other stakeholders could address gaps in ocean governance, catalyse systemic change and ensure the ocean’s ability to sustain life, human rights and communities globally. Such an approach will also contribute to better coordination, collaboration and advance in compliance with other international commitments, including SDGs, especially Goal 14, CDB commitments including Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) and recent agreements from COP16, the UNFCCC process and the next United National Conference on the Ocean. The side event to the Human Rights Council aims to discuss the report of the Special Rapporteur, including in the context of the implementation of right to a healthy environment. It aims to address the importance of a holistic, comprehensive, integrated, gender-responsive and human rights- and ecosystem-based approach to the ocean, with the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment at the centre. More information: https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork....