Fisheries and Human Rights
Human rights and labour standards underpin key aspects of international legal instruments governing fisheries. Implementation of fisheries instruments must be aligned with human rights.
International instruments on Fisheries
Explore how fisheries instruments reflect human rights and labour standards.
Human rights and fisheries
Look at fisheries instruments from a human rights perspective.
Sustainable oceans and human rights
Promoting human rights in fisheries and aquaculture.
Forced labour, limited access to marine resources and markets among small-scale fishers. Increasing Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing, commercial exploitation and lack of respect for indigenous peoples’ rights.
In many parts of the world the fisheries and aquaculture sectors face severe human rights challenges that call for action. And so far, the human rights implications of the sectors have only been addressed in a fragmented and piecemeal manner.
In collaboration with various partners in Chile, Bangladesh and Africa the Danish Institute for Human Rights is leading the global project ‘Sustainable Oceans – Pursuing a human rights-based approach to fisheries and aquaculture’.
