Get an annotated online bibliography on small-scale fisheries and fishing communities. Resources are classified under eight themes: Right to Resources, Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture, Disasters and Climate Change, Decent Work, Fisheries Trade, Aquaculture, Biodiversity and SSF Guidelines
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.
Recent in-depth studies have described and analysed severe cases of forced labour and human trafficking in the fisheries sector. Whereas the fisheries sector counts among the most important economic sectors...
Social Security is achieved when deprivation or vulnerability is reduced or removed as a result of using social means, thereby, in the process, making lives and livelihoods more secure. However,...
Seafarers are among the most exploited and abused groups of workers in the world. Yet their plight is barely recognised by the mainstream media and public opinion. Shipping is big...
The Work in Fishing Convention, adopted at the last session of the International Labour conference in June 2007, revises and updates a number of earlier International Labour Organization (ILO) instruments...
Many migrants from Thailand’s neighbouring countries leave home in search of a better life – often crossing borders into Thailand in search of new horizons in this new and economically...
Society for Direct Initiative for Social and Health Action (DISHA) organized state level consultations on ILO Convention on Work in Fishing in collaboration with Centre for Education & Communication (CEC)...
Migrant workers from poorer countries of Asia, in search of better grounds, which their country cannot provide, have tried to grasp this opportunity by getting in every possible way, no...
This article is based on a visit to northern Thailand’s Tak province where the author got to meet with Burmese migrant workers, hear their stories in order to gain a...
The southeast Asian country of Burma may be best known for its repressive government, but it also has one of the world’s lowest per capita incomes. Government controls, inefficient financial...
The ITF considers that the fishing industry should be run on a sustainable basis and in a responsible manner. Therefore the industry should, in addition to complying with the United...