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.
Social Dimensions of Marine Protected Area Implementation in India: Do Fishing Communities Benefit?, 21-22 January 2009, Chennai, India
Consolidar Y Garantizar El Acceso Y Los Derecheos De Uso De La Pesca Artesanal: La vision de las comunidades costeras y dela pesca artisanal sobre las poliicas pesquera y acuicola,...
Asserting rights, Defining Responsibilities: Perspectives from artisanal fishing and coastal communities on fisheries and aquaculture policies, coastal management, access to markets and aquatic biodiversity conservation in Latin America, Chile, 4-8...
Asserting Rights, Defining Responsibilities: Perspectives from Small-scale Fishing Communities on Coastal and Fisheries Management in Eastern and Southern Africa
Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the CBD
International Conference of Fishworkers and Their Supporters, Rome, Italy, 4-8 July 1984
Second meeting of the Ad-hoc working group on protected areas
Social Dimensions of MPAs, 8-9 Feb 2008
Workshop on Social Dimensions in Marine Protected Areas, 8-9 Feb, 2008
National Consultation on Impending Threat to the Coastal Zone, Chennai
Twenty Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI)
World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) Third General Assembly
Asian Women’s Consultation on Post-tsunami Challenges