Urgent request for the prioritisation of EU Regulation to combat forced labour: Legislation is key to ensuring EU consumers and businesses do not take part in, and help prevent, the exploitation of human rights. It is therefore concerning that progress on the Forced Labour Regulation in the Council of the EU has been limited.

Critical Raw Materials Regulation: Opening the EU door to materials exploited from the deep sea?: The Critical Raw Materials Regulation must not inadvertently or by design open the door to commercial deep-sea mining. Consistent with the precautionary principle, this new EU law should prevent the extraction, processing and import of critical raw materials exploited from the deep sea, unless the available scientific evidence establishes that deep-sea mining does not risk harming biodiversity and marine ecosystems or disrupting the oceanic carbon cycle.

A manifesto for our ocean: Our ocean is the blue beating heart of our planet, but we are putting this irreplaceable ecosystem under extreme pressure. In this manifesto, we lay out a roadmap for the protection of the ocean, providing clear policy recommendations to save our seas and safeguard our future.

Paradise lost? Protecting the Pantanal, a precious ecosystem in crisis: The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland and home to rich biodiversity, Indigenous peoples and traditional communities. It is, however, quickly disappearing with the intensification of cattle ranching and monoculture farming, including soy plantations.

Coal-powered crisis: The cost of Germany’s energy U-turn: This briefing analyses Germany's recent increased reliance on coal, and what consequences this has for meeting the country's legally binding climate commitments. It focuses on the coal phase-out and the energy transition in Germany, making recommendations for the German Federal Government to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2030.

2021 년부터 적용된 원양 외국인 어선원 노동조건 이행방안, 이주어선원에 대한 인권 침해 대응 실패: 한국 원양어선 내 이주어선원에 대한 인권 침해적 관행은 만연해왔고, "원양 외국인 어선원 근로조건 이행방안" 시행 이후에도 이들의 기본적인 노동 여건은 보장되지 않았다. 이주 어선원들을 보호하기 위한 법 개정 및 제도적 개혁이 시급하다.

Korea’s Migrant Fishers Plan fails to end human rights abuses at sea: Measures to protect migrant fishers in the Korean distant water fishing fleet have failed to uphold their basic human rights. Forced labour and human trafficking remain prevalent. Urgent reform is needed to safeguard migrant fishers on Korean-owned and Korean-flagged vessels.

Forced Labour Regulation: a 'carding' system: This briefing highlights the benefits of introducing a 'carding system' to the proposed Forced Labour Regulation to prohibit products made with forced labour on the EU market, inspired by the successes of the EU's Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Fishing Regulation.

10% total catch margin of tolerance for purse seine vessels applied to Indian ocean tuna: This briefing uses theoretical examples to show how applying the 'margin of tolerance' to the total catch of EU vessels could drive significant overfishing of tropical tuna.

The perils of deep-sea mining: A briefing for financial institutions: Investing in deep-sea mining should be seen as extremely high-risk given threats to biodiversity, unpredictable demand, unproven technology, the risk of litigation and reputational risk.

허물어진 장벽: 수입 수산물 이력 관리 실태, 문제점 및 개선 제언: 한국의 수산물 수입은 증가 추세에 있지만, 이를 감시 및 규제하는 보호 장치가 강력하지 않아 불법 어업과 관련성이 높은 수산물이 한국 시장에 유입되고 있는 실정이다. 한국 정부는 국민들이 본인도 모르게 환경 파괴적인 어업과 인권 침해를 지지하게 되는 상황을 방지하기 위해 수산물 공급망의 투명성과 추적성을 강화해야 할 것이다.

The Broken Barrier: How illegal fishing and human rights abuses in Korea’s fisheries imports go undetected: A rise in seafood imports and a lack of supply chain safeguards is allowing the products of illegal fishing to enter the Korean market. The Korean government must improve transparency and traceability measures to ensure consumers are not driving environmentally destructive fishing and human rights abuses at sea.