Miguel De Serpa Soares is United Nations Legal Counsel and Under-­Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, and Special Adviser to the Presidents of the Ocean Conference on oceans and legal matters.

Land-locked States shall have the right of access to and from the sea for the purpose of exercising the rights provided for in this Convention including those relating to the freedom of the high ...

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has been in force for 30 years. CNA looks at how it helps countries ensure ...

The adoption of the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention, 1982 was the result of the world's most ambitious law reform movements. The Convention is a comprehensive instrument functioning as a ...

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India has signed the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement For the High Seas Treaty, but for the instrument to ...

Why is China—a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) and a party-litigant (that chose to ...

With the signing of the High Seas Treaty agreement, India has committed to protecting marine life in the high seas. But what ...

WE welcome the news about two new laws signed last Nov. 8 by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., two measures governing maritime ...

FILE - A Philippine flag flutters from BRP Sierra Madre, a dilapidated Philippine Navy ship that has been aground since 1999 ...