Turning The Tide Towards The Realisation of Small-Scale Fishing Rights
FIAN and Masifundise launch a monitoring report on the realisation of small-scale fishing rights with a focus on South Africa
In celebration of South Africa’s Human Rights Day, FIAN, in collaboration with Masifundise, is launching the monitoring report titled: Turning The Tide Towards The Realisation of Small-Scale Fishing Rights, which assesses the state of seven cases of small-scale fisheries in South Africa based on international human rights guidelines.
This report is the culmination of three years of Participatory Action Research in seven small-scale fishing areas in South Africa, in which the current state of small-scale fisheries has been assessed using the UN Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) as well as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).
The aim of this report is to be used as a tool in the campaign for human rights, in particular the right to food and nutrition, of small-scale fishers in South Africa, and in the areas of fisheries’ governance of tenure and management.
