Raphaelle Gauthier

About/Bio

I am a French law student in the final year of my LLM at the University of Antwerp, Belgium with a specialisation in Sustainable Development and Global Justice. As a legal advisor in a legal clinic, I contributed to an analysis of the human rights implications of the Blue Bond project in Belize. I am currently writing a thesis about the decolonisation of the international legal framework on Indigenous Peoples, within the context of protected areas.

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Drowning Out Voices: The Harmful Impact of Marine Protection Privatization on Indigenous Peoples

Over the past few decades, the use of market-based financial instruments to protect the environment has gained increasing attention. Innovative debt-for-ocean conservation swaps model is a case in point. These debt swaps allow heavily indebted developing countries with a considerable marine area to create some fiscal space by restructuring their existing debt. In exchange for the debt reduction,…

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