The Latest Breaking News from UNCLOS

Thailand and Cambodia begin UN conciliation process over disputed maritime claims

Thailand and Cambodia started talks Tuesday to resolve a sea border dispute under a U.N. maritime law agreement

The Independent UK · Sep 15

Land border talks have stalled: FM

Foreign Affairs Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said bilateral talks with Cambodia on land-border issues had stalled after Phnom Penh initiated compulsory conciliation under an international treaty over a maritime boundary dispute.

Bangkok Post · Jul 20

India's Bimal Patel elected UN's ITLOS tribunal judge

The election was held within the framework of the 36th Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. (ITLOS) is an independent judicial body established by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law…

The Economic Times · Jun 19

Maritime talks with Cambodia fail

No agreement was reached during bilateral talks with Cambodia, says Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow, following Bangkok's decision to cancel the 2001 memorandum of understanding (MoU 44) on overlapping maritime claims.

Bangkok Post · May 27

Thailand and Cambodia are bickering over their borders again. Can diplomacy prevent a return to war?

Last year, Thailand and Cambodia fought two brief conflicts over their 800-kilometre-long land border that killed dozens of people and forced a half million people to flee their homes.

The Conversation · May 15

The boarding of the Marinera and the rise of the shadow fleet in hybrid warfare

The dramatic seizure of the Russian-flagged tanker Marinera/Bella 1 in the north Atlantic, carried out by the US coastguard with British support, underscores the collision between maritime law and power politics.

The Conversation · Jan 8

What does international law tell us about the US seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela?

“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela – a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually,” said Donald Trump on December 10. In a dramatic operation, US forces had just taken over an oil tanker called Skipper, which was sanctioned by the US in…

The Conversation · Dec 11, 2025

New Zealand is failing to protect its vast ocean resources. We owe it to the world to act

Less than 1% of our country’s seas are highly protected and the damaging practice of bottom-trawling must be restricted

The Guardian - AU · Jun 10, 2025

Abandoning Bass Strait oil and gas structures would breach international law, expert warns

Australia must insist on full removal when ExxonMobil decommissions offshore project, Wilderness Society says

The Guardian - AU · Oct 28, 2024

Philippines seeks UN confirmation of its vast continental seabed in the disputed South China Sea

The Philippines has asked a United Nations body to formally recognize the extent of a vast undersea stretch of its continental seabed in the South China Sea, where it could exclusively exploit resources, the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila said

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2024