BCOLP Webinar - Beyond Boundaries: Collaborative Ocean Governance in the Bay of Bengal

 Bangladesh Centre for Ocean Law and Policy - BCOLP is pleased to invite you to the very first episode of its Inaugural Webinar Series. The first session’s title is “Beyond Boundaries: Collaborative Ocean Governance in the Bay of Bengal”.

We are delighted to share that Ms Arpita Goswami Sachdeva, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg, and PhD candidate, University of Luxembourg, has kindly agreed to be the speaker for the first episode. Ms Sachdeva has extensive experience in the law of the sea and maritime boundary delimitation. She has previously worked in the Indian Society of International Law (as a member of the research team of the Bangladesh/India Arbitration Case 2014), South China Sea Institute (as a Graduate Research Assistant), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (as an intern)  and the International Law Commission (as a Legal Assistant). She attended Dr RML National Law University (India), Xiamen University (China), and Graduate Institute, Geneva (Switzerland). Ms Sachdeva’s research interests also include procedures of international courts and tribunals, state immunity, sovereign debt, and the law and politics of state building. She speaks Hindi, English, French and Chinese.
 
Dr Abdullah Al Arif, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Yokohama City University (Japan) and BCOLP’s Founding Director, will give a brief introductory speech. Mr Quazi Omar Foysal, LLM Candidate, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and Lecturer (on Study Leave), American International University-Bangladesh, will moderate the session.
 
The webinar will take place on 30 July 2022 at 22:00 Hours Dhaka Time, 21:30 (21:30 Hours Indian Standard Time and 18:00 Hours Central European Summar Time).
 
The session will be delivered via Zoom. Please fill in the following Google Form to receive the meeting link for the session.
 
Registration link: https://lnkd.in/gK8_iaxy

Marine Fisheries Act 2020 of Bangladesh: A Missed Opportunity for Sustainability and Collaborative Governance

 

This article critically examines the Marine Fisheries Act 2020 of Bangladesh. The Act replaced the Marine Fisheries Ordinance 1983 with a view to upgrading the regulation of fisheries resources in Bangladesh’s marine waters. However, a substantial portion of the Act replicates the 1983 Ordinance. Critically, the Act does not incorporate the internationally recognised principles and measures of fisheries management, despite Bangladesh’s international obligations. Moreover, the new law is silent about capacity development of relevant government agencies and community engagement. Overall, it was a missed opportunity for Bangladesh to include sustainability and collaborative governance principles in its marine fisheries sector.

Click here to read the full article.

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Bangladesh Centre for Ocean Law and Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan forum for education, research and training on ocean law and policy, focusing on Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal. BCOLP aims to generate debates and discussions on Bangladesh's position in the global and regional ocean governance and raise public awareness about maritime security, marine environmental protection, natural resource management, blue economy and other relevant aspects of ocean governance. The Centre also fosters original research on national, regional and global ocean law and policy. BCOLP envisions a rule-based international order where natural resources are sustainably managed and equitably distributed.

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