EU and sealing

February 19, 2019

Commercial Sealers under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants

On 17 December 2018 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNROP). The document, which encompasses 28 articles, is a far-reaching human rights instruments, which combines well-established human rights standards with labour rights, environmental rights and, more specifically, women's rights. Additionally, …

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January 30, 2019

Sealers and the right to human dignity

The public discourse on the non-indigenous, commercial seal hunt is marked by connotations of barbarism and brutality. And indeed, stemming from my own fieldwork in the Newfoundland hunt, sealing is not pretty. But then again, is killing an animal ever pretty? The answer is quite obviously 'no'. Lookout of a sealing vessel © Nikolas Sellheim …

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