The human rights guide to fisheries
The guide intends to serve as a starting point for further in-depth analysis and reflection on how to align implementation of sustainable fisheries laws, policies and planning with the state obligation to respect, protect and fulfil human rights and labour standards. Thereby showing a human rights-based approach to implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 on Life Below Water.
The guide is the essential tool to:
- Understand the linkages between the international fisheries instruments and the human rights and labour instruments
- Develop a human rights-based approach to sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, laws, policies, programming, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting
- Understand which fisheries instruments have the strongest anchorage in human rights and which human rights categories are addressed the most in fisheries instruments.
Who can use it?
The guide has useful information for all actors, including States, local authorities, civil society organisations, businesses, national human rights institutions, regional human rights bodies, the UN-system, donors and specific rights-holders such as women, children, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and migrant workers.
