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Three leaders of World Forum of Fisher Peoples – WFFP WFFP attended a training program at Sao Paolo, Brazil which was facilitated in collaboration with LVC, WMW, FoEI, FIAN International, TNI, WH, GI, and WFFP.
The program focused attention on Human Rights Violations and the challenges faced by Human Rights Defenders all over the world. The killings, disappearances, forced abductions, Smear campaigns, arrests, detentions, and much more harassment experienced by HRDs and the need for a collective effort to face the challenges.
Josana Pinto of MPP Brazil and the Continental representative of Caribbean and Latin America was among the speakers at the program and said, “We are SSF in the world need more attention from our Comrades as we are the most vulnerable communities among other food producers in the world.”

WFFP Unites Fishers across the Globe

“UPHOLD our human and fishing rights as fisherfolk of the world, protect our livelihoods, pursue social justice for fishing communities, preserve and promote the culture of fishing communities worldwide, affirm water as the source of all life and commit ourselves to sustain fisheries and all aquatic resources for present and future generations of the world”. With these words, fisherfolk from ...

Global Fisheries Guidelines promote food security and Poverty Eradication

Small-scale fishers worldwide will benefit significantly when international guidelines governing the sector are finally adopted. The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (The Voluntary Guidelines) was approved at an international forum in Rome in July. According to Naseegh Jaffer, National Director of Masifundise and Co-ordinator of the WFFP, the Voluntary ...

National Fishworker’s Forum prevents massive eviction of fisher communities

When the federal government of India first brought in the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) in 1991, it was designed to protect the first 500 meters of India’s coastline and ensure preferential access rights for fishers. However, up until 2005 the act had been amended a total of 22 times in favour of industries and hoteliers, leading to a loss of ...

Ecuador: Shrimp Farming vs. Ancestral Land Rights

[button link=’https://wffp-web.org/2014/08/24/cria-de-camaron-frente-derechos-territoriales-ancestrales-en-ecuador/’ size=’large’ color=’red’ target=’blank’]En Español[/button] Ecuador is the fifth largest producer of shrimp worldwide, generating over one billion dollars a year. Ecuador’s fragile wetlands have been devastated by shrimp farming – according to official statistics, the national area of mangroves went from 362,000 hectares to 108,000 hectares. Although the shrimp industry employs 250,000 people in Ecuador, a much higher ...

Cría de camarón frente a derechos territoriales ancestrales en Ecuador

[button link=’https://wffp-web.org/2014/08/24/ecuador-shrimp-farming-vs-ancestral-land-rights/?preview=true&preview_id=506&preview_nonce=2c531e48ff&post_format=standard’ size=’large’ color=’blue’ target=’blank’]In English[/button] Ecuador es el quinto mayor productor mundial de camarón, una actividad que genera más de mil millones de dólares estadounidenses al año. Los frágiles humedales del país han sido devastados por la cría de camarón; según estadísticas oficiales, la superficie nacional de manglares se ha reducido de 362.000 hectáreas a apenas 108.000. Aunque la industria del camarón emplea ...

Kenya’s Fishers Victims of National Politics

When the terrorization of the Horn of Africa by the Al-Quaeda linked Al-Shabaab could no longer be ignored, Kenya responded by sending troops into Southern Somalia in October 2011, but even that could not put an end the threat upon the local populace, including fishing communities. Political turmoil in the coastal region has seen attacks carried out in the name ...