{"id":45577,"date":"2021-06-24T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/yemaya\/south-america-brazil"},"modified":"2021-08-28T04:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T04:26:54","slug":"south-america-brazil","status":"publish","type":"yemaya","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/yemaya\/south-america-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"South America \/ Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"
South America \/ Brazil<\/p>\n
Advancing the gender agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n In a meeting of the Brazilian organization, National Articulation of Fisherwomen (ANP), its leaders discuss aspects of their work and mobilization<\/strong><\/p>\n By Na\u00edna Pierri <\/strong>(pierrinai@gmail.com<\/a>), Professor at Federal University of Paran\u00e1 (UFPR) and ICSF Member and Natalia Tavares de Azevedo<\/strong> (nataliatavares@ufpr.br<\/a>), Researcher at UFPR, Brazil<\/p>\n Since the mid 1970s the fisherwomen of Brazil have been organizing themselves. This process advanced significantly in the last ten years since the national fishery conferences organized by the government of former President, Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, between 2003 and 2006, which gave fisherwomen the opportunity to meet and discuss their situation at state and national levels. This led to the formation of the National Articulation of Fisherwomen (ANP), created in 2006 at the First National Meeting of Fisherwomen, held in Recife, Pernambuco. The organization rapidly gained support in the states, particularly in the northeast region and parts of the north, southeast and southern regions.<\/p>\n In April 2010, ANP leaders helped found the Movement of Artisanal Fishermen and Fisherwomen of Brazil (MPP) in Acupe in Bahia state. Since then, the MPP and the ANP have been active in defending artisanal fisheries and the rights of its communities.<\/p>\n In May 2010, the Second National Meeting of ANP was held in the city of Fortim, Cear\u00e1 to review the progress made since 2006 (see Yemaya 34). In June 2012, in the third meeting of the ANP held in Cabedelo, Para\u00edba, whose theme was \u0093Fishing with Health and Welfare, the main issues discussed were fisherwomen’s health, the shortcomings of the health system, and the problems that fisherwomen face with social security. It was decided that these issues would form the focus of ANP’s mobilization efforts for the next two years.<\/p>\n National meetings of the ANP are held every two years to analyze the condition of fisherwomen and set priorities for the next two-year period. Co-ordination meetings with state representatives take place twice every year to evaluate the state-level implementation of national-level decisions and to discuss achievements and future directions.<\/p>\n Two co-ordination meetings have been held in 2013in June and October. The rest of this report describes the second of these two co-ordination meetings.<\/p>\n Aimed at strengthening the organization of artisanal fisherwomen in Brazil and organized with the support of ICSF and the Pastoral Council of Fishworkers (CPP), the meeting, scheduled for 21 to 23 October, was expected to be attended by about 25 leaders from 11 states within Brazil.<\/p>\n The main objectives were to take stock of the progress on the issue of occupational health policies related to fisherwomen, to plan improvements in fisherwomen’s access to welfare rights, and to schedule the next national meeting. Another objective was the sharing of ICSF’s 2010 Gender Agenda programme and the preparatory process behind the Voluntary Guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication<\/em> (SSF Guidelines) being developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), with particular reference to women.<\/p>\n
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