WFFP Coordination Committee Meeting – Decisions and Report Published: Basque 2-7 November 2006 The CC meeting held at Basque gave us hope, courage and also renewed our commitment towards the artisanal, small scale, and beach based fisher people in the world. Read the full report: Report of CC Meet 2006 ...

Un nuevo informe fue presentado por los movimientos de pueblos pescadores a nivel global. El informe expone firmes objeciones en contra de las élites políticas y económicas y de su proyecto para privatizar recursos naturales a través del mecanismo de carbono azul — tal cual fue presentado en dos documentos, la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio ...

Nouveau rapport rédigé par des mouvements de pêcheurs du monde entier Le rapport remet en cause les élites politiques et économiques ainsi que leur projet de privatiser la nature à travers le programme Carbone Bleu de la Convention-Cadre des Nations Unies sur les Changements Climatiques et à travers l’Accord de Paris. Le rapport propose également une série de vraies solutions ...

New report produced by fisher movements from across the world. The report challenges the political and economic elites and their project to privatise our nature through the Blue Carbon mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. It also emphasises a series of real solutions which are rooted in the knowledge and culture of ...

“There is a parcel of land they [investors] say is private. Private belonging to who?” asks Christiana Louwa of the El Molo Forum in northern Kenya, and continues “…our land is never private. Its public land. The land belongs to our communities… and its in our constitution”. In a new investigative report, it is clear that the Green Wind Power ...

“We, the Fonseca Gulf Association of Artisanal Fisher people known as APAGOLF together with our associates, hereby condemn the murder of Berta Cáceres and we demand that President JOH ensures that her murder does not go unpunished and that those responsible for this crime are prosecuted. This is the right moment for him to enact the words he lives by, ...

Press release, 2 February 2016, Kolkata “The tiger is not our threat, the Forest Department is.” “Forest Department Kee Jaagir Nahi; Sundarban Humara Hai” Asserting their rights over the Sundarban forest, more than 200 people from the region assembled at the Public Hearing in Sundarban islands on 31st January 2016. The Press Conference of the Public Hearing took place at ...

Press statement, Cape Town, 29 January 2016 We call upon the Pakistani authorities to make public the exact location of detention of Mr. Baloch. We furthermore demand that the principles of due process and all of Mr. Baloch’s human rights as internationally recognized, are fully respected. In the late afternoon of 16 January, Mr. Baloch informed his colleagues from the ...

Press Statement, 18 January 2016 Pakistan must release Mr. Saeed Baloch immediately. Mr. Baloch was arrested on 16 January by the Pakistan Rangers, who works under the command of the Pakistan Army. Mr. Baloch is a Human Rights activist since the 1980’ies. He was associated with the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), that works to protect the socio-economic and political rights ...