This world fisheries Day Masifundise Development Trust and Coastal Links embarked on a national gender workshop to brainstorm how ocean grabbing affects women in South Africa and how women can resist.  Women from all four coastal provinces in South Africa met in Patenoster on the West Coast of South Africa. The workshop kicked off with presentations on ocean grabbing globallyand its ...

Agenda made by: International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Made at: Workshop on “Recasting the net: Defining a Gender Agenda for Sustaining Life and Livelihoods in Fishing Communities”. In Deco Hotels, Mahabalipuram, India, 7 – 10 July 2010. A SHARED AGENDA THE PROCESS Thirty-nine participants from 18 countries, including women fishworkers, representatives of fishworker organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), activists and ...

Statement made by: Women in Fisheries. Masifundise Development Trust. Made at: Lambertsbaai, South Africa, 18th February 2010.   “Our fishing communities are currently facing a social, economic and environmental crisis. The human rights of our communities, particularly those of young girls and women, are being violated on a daily basis and we can no longer protect our children or our marine resources ...