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.
The 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 14), Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt from 17 to 29 November 2018
Thirteenth Session of the FAO Sub-Committee on Fisheries – Trade
Thirteenth Session of the FAO Sub-Committee on Fisheries – Trade
Thirteenth Session of the FAO Sub-Committee on Fisheries – Trade
National Workshop on Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries: Towards FAO Guidelines on Marine & Inland Small-scale Fisheries
United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
Recasting the Net: Defining a gender agenda for sustaining life and livelihoods in fishing communities, INDeco Hotels, Mahabalipuram, India
Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation...
Ninth Round of Informal Consultations of States Parties to the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10...
Eleventh Conference on Parties to the CBD
30th Session on the Committee on Fisheries
30th Session on the Committee on Fisheries
Tenth Conference of Parties to the CBD, Nagoya, Japan
Tenth Conference of Parties to the CBD, Nagoya, Japan
Conference for African Ministers, Fisheries and Aquaculture