Fisherwomen on the north coast of Java Island are pushing back against plans to dredge sea sand for export, saying they fear it will worsen coastal erosion and harm marine ecosystems. Fisherwomen on ...

Forough Alaei’s stunning photographs of a community of fisherwomen on a remote island in the Persian Gulf.

Fisherwomen on the north coast of Java Island are pushing back against plans to dredge sea sand for export, saying they fear it will worsen coastal erosion and harm marine ecosystems. Under a 2023 ...

JAKARTA — Fisherwomen on the north coast of Indonesia’s Java Island are leading the fight against the government’s decision to dredge sea sand for export, warning the activity may exacerbate ...

Fisherwomen of Kottucherry Medu, a coastal village in Karaikal, have urged the local administration to provide a dedicated ...

Women in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry challenge patriarchal norms, gaining power and influence in coastal fishing communities.

Xunpu Village in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, still preserves the unique traditional customs of fisherwomen to this day. The "Head-Pinned Flowers," a traditional adornment custom among ...

Unlike the typical vocational training programmes that teach stitching or embroidery - skills that women rarely monetise in these regions - this initiative recognised that fisherwomen already ...

Fisherwomen and women shellfish harvesters and from Alagoas state who have had their lives impacted by the environmental crime of the Braskem mining company called on the country’s Minister of ...

The chances of drowning are too high. These are the fisherwomen of Nakasongola District who are defying tradition and societal norms in the Buganda culture, that bar women from going into the lake ...

Hundreds of women from different parts of the city gathered in Ibrahim Hyderi, demanding that the government immediately cancel the six-canal project on the Indus River. They stressed that this ...