A repository of statements at all ICSF conferences and workshops, beginning 1984. ICSF actively participates in various multilateral conferences—ILO, CBD, FAO, UN-DOALOS among others—issuing statements on important topics. You will also find statements made by civil society organizations and fishworker organizations in several forums.
Women engage in a wide range of activities in fisheries, including paid and unpaid work and liaison with institutions. In several countries, women dominate inland fishing and aquaculture. Their play multiple roles – in seafood processing plants, as caregivers in the family, as the builders of social networks and community.
Gender issues focus not on women only but on their relationship with men, on their roles, rights and responsibilities. They acknowledge that these vary within and between cultures as well as by class, race, ethnicity, age and marital status.
The 2014 SSF Guidelines are based on the principle of gender equality and equity. They integrate gender issues into all small-scale fisheries development strategies.
Share and implement the SSF Guidelines through concrete national policies says Vivienne Solis during Stakeholders Interventions on the zero draft of the second 2022 UN Ocean Conference Declaration stakeholder engagement....
Technical Meeting on the Future of Work in Aquaculture in the Context of the Rural Economy, ILO Geneva, Switzerland (hybrid), 13-17 December 2021
Thirty-Sixth Session of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (Virtual) Thailand 5-7 May 2021
Committee on Fisheries, Thirty-fourth Session, 1-5 February 2021, Rome, Italy
Thirty-fifth Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific, 1-4 September 2020 (Virtual Mode)
First Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Nairobi, Kenya, 27-30 August 2019
Committee on Fisheries, Thirty-fourth Session, 1-5 February 2021, Rome, Italy
Global Dialogue Forum for the Promotion of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188), 15-17 May 2013 Geneva
16th Session of the SBSTTA to the CBD
High-level segment to the CBD COP11
31st Session of Committee on Fisheries
Technical Consultation on International Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small Scale Fisheries, Rome, Italy, 20 to 24 May 2013
National Tripartite Workshop on Work in Fishing Convention No.188 Organised by Government of India and ILO
Eleventh Conference on Parties to the CBD
Asian Women’s Consultation on Post-tsunami Challenges
The First International Conference of Women in Fisheries, held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 5 – 7 November 2018
Eleventh Conference on Parties to the CBD
30th Session on the Committee on Fisheries