World Fisheries Day 2022

Did you know that in 2020, an estimated 58.5 million people were engaged in fisheries and aquaculture, and approximately 21% were women? (FAO SOFIA 2022)

On #WorldFisheriesDay 2022, we call for ensuring human and labour rights for all fishers around the globe.

Professor M. Habibur Rahman Passes Away

We mourn! Professor M. Habibur Rahman, an eminent ocean law and policy expert from Bangladesh, died Tuesday, 15 November 2022, at 76. Professor Rahman, MSc, LLB (Dhaka), LLM (Rajshahi), LLM (Wales), PhD (Bangalore), held positions of Chairperson, Department of Law, and Dean, Faculty of Law, at Rajshahi University. In addition, he did his postdoctoral research at Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany. Professor Rahman has to his credit many publications on numerous aspects of ocean governance and the law of the sea. Among his most significant scholarly contributions are two books - 'Legal Regime of Marine Environment in the Bay of Bengal' (2007) and 'International Law of the Sea' (2016), published by Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, India. We at the Bangladesh Centre for Ocean Law and Policy - BCOLP pray for the eternal peace of the departed soul of this great scholar.