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.
Workshop on Problems and Prospects for Developing Artisanal Fish Trade in West Africa, Centre Social, Derkle, Dakar, Senegal, 30 May-1 June 2001
Asian Fisherfolk Conference: Cut Away the Net of Globalization, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand, 25-29 January 2002
The Struggles of Fishworkers: New Concerns for Support: The Cebu Conference, (Triennial Conference of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers and the Tenth Anniversary of the International Conference of...
Workshop on Issues in Fisheries Development, Trivandrum, India, 20-25 November 1986
Regional Conference on Rebuilding Peasants’ and Fisherfolk’s Livelihoods After the Earthquake and Tsunami Catastrophes
Technical Consultation on Sea Turtles Conservation and Fisheries, Bangkok, Thailand, 29 November-2 December 2004
“CONSRN” Regional Workshop on Rehabilitation of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Coastal Communities of Tsunami-Affected Countries in Asia
A People’s Process for Post-Tsunami Rebuilding
93rd Session 2005 of the International Labour Conference, made at the Committee on the Fishing Sector
92nd Session of the International Labour Conference