To celebrate International Women’s Day 2016, Yemaya, the gender in fisheries newsletter of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, collected a set of regional summaries of milestones for women in fisheries. In her overview for this issue of Yemaya, the editor, Nilanjana Biswas, concluded that while we take stock of, and celebrate the achievements, we should also reflect on the long road of struggle ahead—a struggle for the rights of small-scale fisheries; for the rights of women engaged in fishing, fish trade and fish-work.
Cartoon courtesy ICSF, Yemaya Issue 51.
Read these summaries, plus other articles at: Yemaya. Here are the contents.
- Counting on Women by Sarah Harper and Danika Kleiber
- Women in Aquaculture by Arlene Nietes
Satapornvanit et al - Women in Fisheries in Africa: 1999-2015 by Jackie Sunde
- A Historic Journey by Cornelie Quist and Katia Frangoudes
- Profile: A.G. Chitrani: Transforming others’ lives with her courage
Leader from Trincomalee, Sri Lanka by Herman Kumara - Milestones: General Recommendation on the Rights of Rural Women by Ramya Rajagopalan
- Cooperative Action by Suhas Wasave and Arpita Sharma
- Evocations of the Sea by Vipul Rikhi
- Women in Fisheries in Asia: 1978 – 2016 by Meryl Williams et al
- Q & A: Mercy Antony of Kerala by Venugopalan N
- Yemaya Recommends: Film – Oceans, the Voice of the Invisible by Alain Le Sann (translated Daniele Le Sann).
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