International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)Project at a glanceDates and Place14 June 2005, Geneva, SwitzerlandILO OrganizersInternational Collective Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Project detailsThe International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) is an international non-government organization that works towards the establishment of equitable, gender-just,self-reliant and sustainable fisheries, particularly in the small-scale, artisanal sector.
ICSF draws its mandate from the historic International Conference of Fishworkers and their Supporters (ICFWS), held in Rome in 1984, parallel to the World Conference on Fisheries Management and Development organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
A number of fishworker organizations and concerned intellectuals, academics and social activists felt that the FAO conference had chosen to overemphasize the commercial, industrial, scientific and fishery resource aspects, at the expense of the actual real-world, life-and-blood people involved in fishing worldwide fishworkers who are often sections of the population marginalized from mainstream society. Role of ICVolunteersInterpretation from and to English, French and Spanish. External linksPosted: 2006-6-08 Updated: 2006-9-23 |