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.
93rd Session of the International Labour Conference
26th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the FAO
International Symposium on Marine Environment and the Future of Fishworkers, Lisbon, Portugal, 19-24 June 1989
Global Fisheries Trends and The Future of Fishworkers,Thailand, 22-27 January 1990
South Asia Workshop on Fisheries and Coastal Area Management, Madras, India, 26-29 September 1996
Workshop on Fisheries, Social Analysis and Organisational Strategies in Africa, Accra, Ghana, 17-28 August 1998
Workshop on Gender and Coastal Fishing Communities in Latin America, Ceara, Brazil, 10-15 June, 2000
Forging Unity: Coastal Communities and the Indian Ocean’s Future, Chennai, India, 9-13 October 2001
Asian Regional Consultation on Women in Fisheries, Medan, Indonesia, 11-14 August 2004
Sixth Meeting of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, New York, 6-10 June 2005