Every Wave carries her labour, every shore her claim-article by vmj for wffp blog (1) ...
From tide to market, fisher women keep our communities fed, our cultures alive, and our oceans cared for. Yet their labour remains unseen, uncounted, and unrecognised. This historic first celebration calls on the world to honour fisher women as rights-holders, knowledge-keepers, leaders, and changemakers. 💙🐟 📅 06 November 2025 🕢 7.30 PM IST | 3 PM CET | 8 AM ...
*🌊 THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS 🌊* *November 1st – 5th | A 5-Day Journey Toward History* For the first time ever, the world will celebrate *INTERNATIONAL FISHER WOMEN’S DAY* on November 5th! 🎉 Starting November 1st, join us for a powerful 5-day social media campaign themed – Every Wave Carries Her Labour, Every Shore Her Claim honouring the fisherwomen who’ve worked ...
The 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum for Food Sovereignty officially began with a vibrant and symbolic opening ceremony that set the tone for the days ahead. To mark the opening, Sri Lankan delegates staged a Mystica performance, presented as a play in which a puppet devil representing the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and debt was dramatically shattered. The act symbolized the ...
🌍✨ The world is coming together in Kandy, Sri Lanka! From September 5th – 14th, 2025, the Nyéléni Global Forum will gather movements, communities, and allies from across the globe to strengthen the struggle for Food Sovereignty. 📍 Location: Kandy, Sri Lanka 📅 Dates: 6 – 13 September 2025 🤝 A space of solidarity, dialogue, and collective action! #Nyeleni2025 #FoodSovereignty ...
50 50 50 people, places, events. “ POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THEM” With them I am hero! Without them I am zero! How it all Began ...
DAY 2 – WATERS RISE 📅 9 JUNE 2025 | 🕒 LIVE NOW From oceans to rivers, lakes to deltas—we rise as water peoples, united in resistance and reclamation. C-OP2 Day 2 focuses on: ⚖ Recognition. Redistribution. Reclamation. Reparations. We assert: – Maritorial rights (from coast to inland waters) – The right to fish, to live, to govern – ...
🛑 DAY 1 – ASSAULT ON OCEAN PEOPLES 📅 8 JUNE 2025 | 🌍 ONLINE From Blue Economy to Blue Carbon, from int ensive aquaculture to sea-bed mining, UNOC3 is enabling a global push to grab waters, erase fisher rights, and convert marine life into capital. 🪧 What we’re exposing today: – Ocean/Aqua Grabbing – Displacement of capture fisheries ...
Dear friends, We invite you to join the Second Conference of the Ocean Peoples (C-OP2) a global political summit organised by the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) on 8 and 9 June 2025, online. C-OP is a fisher people’s summit organised in direct rejection of the corporate-led UN Ocean Conference 2025 (UNOC3) in Nice, France. As resolved at the ...
LOOK | Small fisherfolk from various fisherfolk federations trooped to Mendiola, Manila to mark National Fisherfolk Day today, May 30. Militant fishers’ group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (PAMALAKAYA), along with other fisherfolk organizations and non-government organizations (NGOs), demanded that the Marcos administration reject the Supreme Court ruling allowing commercial fishing vessels to operate within municipal waters. “Various ...