Conference Name:Regional Small-scale Fisheries Governance Training Course for Africa: Creating an Enabling Environment for SSF Guidelines Implementation, 15-19 February 2021
Date: 16-02-2021
Abstract: An Introduction to Sub-Saharan Africa
Population: 1.3 billion
No of countries: 46 (30 have a coastline and all except one have ratified the 1982 UNCLOS)
Senegal, Congo, Angola, Namibia and South Africa have ratified the ILO Work in Fishing Convention (No. 188)
SSA countries recognize international human rights standards and the protection of human rights, recognize the 1981 African (Banjul) Charter of Human and People’s Rights, and economic and social development
One Constitution even recognizes the national association of fishers (Ghana)…
