Known as the constitution for the oceans, UNCLOS is a set of maritime rules governing everything from coastal boundaries, environmental protection, and the right for ships to transit through ...

Late last September, Kyodo News, a Japanese news agency, reported that the Japanese government had privately informed the Chinese government that the captain (commander) of the Japan Maritime ...

Tensions around the Strait of Hormuz have pushed the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, back into focus because the treaty contains the core legal rules governing passage through major ...

The Strait of Hormuz exists in the eye of the beholder. While everyone agrees that, geographically speaking, it is a strait – a narrow sea passage connecting two places that ships want to go – its ...

Cambodia is casting the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) as a critical legal safeguard for its maritime rights, as uncertainty grows over the future of bilateral mechanisms with Thailand ...