Friday, October 28, 2022

FAO publishes 'Legal report on the ecosystem approach to fisheries in Bangladesh'

🌊đŸŽŖ🐟🐠đŸĻˆđŸ‹đŸŗ🇧🇩 'Legal report on the ecosystem approach to fisheries in Bangladesh' has recently been published by FAO. This critical report provides a preliminary assessment of Bangladesh's fisheries regulatory framework considering the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF), highlighting the strengths and gaps in the relevant national laws and policies. BCOLP's founder and director, Dr Abdullah Al Arif, has contributed to this report as a co-author.


Saturday, October 22, 2022

The Interaction between Judicial Settlement of Delimitation and Delineation Procedure by the CLCS: Lessons from the Bay of Bengal

 












Bangladesh Centre for Ocean Law and Policy - BCOLP strongly believes in a rule-based international order and recognizes the central role of the United Nations in establishing such an order. Therefore, being mindful of one of the UN Charter's fundamental principles, the peaceful settlement of disputes, BCOLP invites you to a specially curated third episode of its inaugural webinar series on the occasion of UN Day, 24 October 2022. "The Interaction between Judicial Settlement of Delimitation and Delineation Procedure by the CLCS: Lessons from the Bay of Bengal" - is the session's title.

We are delighted that Dr Makoto Seta, Associate Professor at Yokohama City University, Japan, has kindly agreed to be the speaker for the third episode. Dr Seta has a wealth of experience in ocean governance and the law of the sea. He completed his LLM from the London School of Economics in the UK and PhD from Waseda University in Japan. Dr Seta researched and published extensively on the law of sea and ocean governance.

Dr Abdullah Al Arif, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Yokohama City University, Japan, and BCOLP's Founder and Director, will give a brief introductory speech. Mr Quazi Omar Foysal, Lecturer at American International University-Bangladesh, will moderate the session.

The webinar will take place on 24 October 2022 at 7:00 pm Bangladesh Time, 6:30 pm Indian Standard Time and 10:00 pm Japan Standard Time.

The session will be delivered via Zoom. Please fill in the following Google Form, and we will send the webinar link to your email shortly. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please get in touch with us via email at bcolp2022@gmail.com. Thank you, and we look forward to e-meeting you at the webinar.

Registration link: https://lnkd.in/g8dXXeqX

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