ICSF has made presentations to highlight the perspectives and concerns of small-scale fishworkers at various UN and Civil Society meetings. These are presented here. Material from such meetings has helped build awareness of developments at the both the international level of, say, UN forums, and among fishworker organizations
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.
SSF Summit, Rome, 5-7 July 2024 https://ssfhub.org/ssf-summit-2024
SSF Summit: 10th Anniversary of the SSF Guidelines, 5 July 2024 2nd Small-Scale Fisheries Summit (SSF Summit 2024), FAO, Rome, Italy
Twenty-fourth Meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP-24), United Nations, New York, 19 June 2024 https://www.un.org/depts/los/consultative_process/consultative_process.htm
International Conference on Fishers’ Welfare, May 13-17, 2024, Taichung, Taiwan
Technical Expert Workshop to Review Modalities for Modifying the Descriptions of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas and Describing New Areas, Oslo, Norway, November 20–24, 2023
The National Council Meeting 6-7 November, 2023 at Kolkata, India
Problue Global Engagement Forum Lost At Sea: Combating Abandoned, Lost and Otherwise, Discarded Fishing Gear Salons de l’hôtel des Ars et Mtiers, 9 bis avenue d’lena, 75116 (Paris, France), Sunday,...
CAOPA Workshop, 22 October 2022
IYAFA 2022 | Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) Summit 2022 : SSF Guidelines implementation – towards other Regional Plans of Action by International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Parallel Sessions: Thematic Deep...
Initiatives to support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...