Fisherwomen have petitioned the government for support to help them acquire deep-sea fishing vessels to compete with Chinese ...

Maria Bernadete Pacífico, a prominent national leader of quilombos (maroon communities) in Brazil was assassinated at home by ...

By the time dawn breaks over the Gulf of Mannar, the women of Ramananthapuram district in Tamil Nadu would have already ...

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.

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

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to ...

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 ...

Lakshmi Kovvada, president of a fish-workers’ union affiliated with the NFF, told Mongabay India she’s worried about fisherwomen increasingly being forced to look for work as domestic helpers.

India’s fisherwomen face not only economic instability but also the shrinking availability of open spaces to carry out value-added fishing activities. Women’s employment is given limited priority in ...

PhD researcher Andi Misbahul Pratiwi (School of Geography), Puspita Bahari (fisherwomen community) and Associate Professor of Gender and Climate Katie McQuaid hosted the festival “Women Weaving ...