Fisheries and the right to food 2012, para. 25
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- The creation of fisheries for export markets and the increasing investments of foreign fishing firms may lead to new jobs on fishing boats and at the processing stage (in countries that have the appropriate infrastructure). In many countries, however, jobs on foreign vessels are not open to local citizens and, even where they are, wages and job security are often poor and dangerous. In a 1999 study on safety and health in the fishing industry, the International Labour Organization estimated that 24,000 people working in the fish industry died annually from work-related causes. More recent research has exposed poor, even slave-like, working conditions in many industrial vessels operating illegally in developing coastal countries. This highlights the importance of swift and wide ratification of the Convention concerning Work in the Fishing Sector (Convention No. 188) and the need to introduce provisions concerning work conditions on-board fishing vessels in fishing access agreements.
- Condicón jurídica
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organismo
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Tipo de documento
- Special Procedures' report
- Medio de adopción
- N.A.
- Temas
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personas afectadas
- N.A.
- Año
- 2012
- Tipo de párrafo
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/268, para. 25.
- Paragraph number
- 25
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