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.
Speaker: Margaret Nakato Good afternoon delegates, My name is Margaret Nakato, and I am here today from Uganda as part of a delegation of small-scale fisher representatives from around the...
International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Press Conference: Fisher Peoples in Action – United Nations Biodiversity Conference 2024 23 October 2024 Statement Call for Inclusion of Small-Scale Fishers as...
International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Committee on Fisheries (COFI), Thirty-sixth Session Agenda Item 13 Marine Plastic Pollution and Fisheries and Aquaculture Statement International Collective in Support of Fishworkers...
International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Committee on Fisheries (COFI) Thirty-sixth Session Agenda Item 12: The implications for fisheries and aquaculture of global biodiversity frameworks and agreements Statement Small-scale...
International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Committee on Fisheries (COFI) Thirty-sixth Session Agenda Item 11: Impact of Climate Change on Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Aquatic Foods as a Climate...
Committee on Fisheries: Thirty-sixth Session Agenda Item 10: The Role of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Food Security and Nutrition Statement International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) The International Collective...
Colectivo Internacional de Apoyo a los Trabajadores de la Pesca (ICSF) Subcomité de Ordenación Pesquera de la FAO: Primera sesión Punto 4 del orden del día Incorporación de la biodiversidad...
Colectivo Internacional de Apoyo a los Trabajadores de la Pesca (ICSF) Subcomité de Ordenación Pesquera de la FAO: Primera sesión Punto 5 del orden del día: Pesca resiliente al clima...
El Colectivo Internacional de Apoyo al Pescador Artesanal (CIAPA) acoge con satisfacción el documento de trabajo COFI:FM/I/2024/2, y reconoce la excepcional calidad de los documentos de información INF.5, INF.6, INF.7...
IYAFA Regional workshop: Getting the story straight and envisioning a fair future for small-scale fisheries in Europe Vilanova de Arousa, Galicia, Spain, 13-16 November 2023 WORKSHOP STATEMENT As part...
My name is Gaoussou GUEYE, and I am speaking today on behalf of the African Confederation of Artisanal Fishing Organisations (CAOPA), which brings together women and men involved in small-scale...
Small scale fisheries, Human rights-based approach and SSF Guidelines By Margaret Nakato, Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT) Small-scale fishers play powerful role in ocean stewardship and governance embedded with rich...
For the attention of African delegations at UNOC 3 African Small-Scale Fisheries Advocacy Priorities In 2022, as the International Year of Small-scale Fisheries and Aquaculture was proclaimed, CAOPA, its members...
Consolidating action plans for the future and key statement Regional small-scale fisheries (SSF) workshop in Asia: Building on a decade of the SSF Guidelines for a sustainable future, 26–27 March...
28 years ago, we founded the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), a mass-based fisher people’s organisation. We formed WFFP to fight for the customary and human rights of the...
We, the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) have gathered from around the world from 14 to 21 November 2024 in Brasilia, Brazil for the WFFP’s 8th General Assembly. Even...
WFFP Youth Assembly: Statement and Resolutions, November 2024 “Youth is not the future, Youth is now” We, the Youth of the World Forum of Fisher People (WFFP), convened for the...
Statement by Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) at United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP 16 / CP-MOP 11 / NP-MOP 5, Cali, Colombia, 21 October – 1 November 2024 Statement is available...
Statement by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) at United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP 16 / CP-MOP 11 / NP-MOP 5, Cali, Colombia, 21 October –...
Statement by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at United Nations Biodiversity Conference COP 16 / CP-MOP 11 / NP-MOP 5, Cali, Colombia, 21 October – 1 November...