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

See All Key Ideas SUMENEP, Indonesia — Fisherwomen on Indonesia’s Madura Island are at the forefront of a protest against a plan to convert a stretch of their coast into salt farming in their ...

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

Fisherwomen in Tunisia are gathering to share industry practices despite much of their work going unrecognized in the male-dominated profession. Now, as climate change warms the planet's waters ...

Lakshmi Kovvada, president of a fish-workers’ union affiliated with the NFF, told Mongabay India she’s worried about ...

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 ...

Fisherwomen also have less access to administrative benefits, training and banking services, where they are viewed as “high-risk borrowers” compared to men, the study said. As a result ...

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

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 ...

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 ...