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A video featuring statements from workers, fishing industry leaders, and government officials explaining how the SAFE Seas project has helped protect fishers from harmful labor practices.

This handbook provides consolidated guidance on the detection of forced labor among fishers. The handbook is aimed at both state authorities and at non-state actors directly engaged with fishers or otherwise concerned with labor and human rights in fishing. The Handbook is relevant for fisheries worldwide, but the tools it contains will require adaptation to each country’s legal frameworks and fishing industry characteristics. Part I of the handbook describes the broad legal and conceptual frameworks for understanding the characteristics of forced labor in fishing and Part II provides guidance on how forced labor detection can be integrated into the extant compliance efforts.

This impact report summarizes the impacts of the SAFE Seas project in combatting harmful labor practices and protecting fishers. The report describes project efforts to develop policy, improve regulatory capacity, strengthen policy enforcement and reporting mechanisms, establish support mechanisms, increase community awareness and support, and produce new knowledge about fishing communities.

A brochure explaining the goals of the SAFE Seas project to end harmful labor practices in the fishing industry and how the project is working to achieve these goals.

Toolkit developed as part of Objective 3 of CAPSA Project, designed to assist Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in implementing adequate due diligence and responsible business conduct towards prevention and elimination or abolition of child labour. The toolkit provides SMEs with practical guidelines on how businesses can be involved in child labour and how they could contribute to its elimination.

A presentation, written for a workshop of stakeholders, presenting preliminary findings of a sectoral study into the artisanal fishing sector in Mauritania.

A policy brief created to inform decision makers and government agencies in the Philippines to protect fishers from harmful labor practices. This policy brief contains findings from labor inspections, advice for identifying at-risk conditions, minimum requirements to protect fishers, and policy recommendations. Of note, the "Attendance list" for the Focus Group Discussion & Presentation of the draft Policy Brief on Multidisciplinary Inspection in the document has been removed for privacy purposes. 

A policy brief created to inform decision makers and government agencies in Indonesia to protect fishers from harmful labor practices. This policy brief contains findings from labor inspections, advice for identifying at-risk conditions, minimum requirements to protect fishers, and policy recommendations. Of note, the "Attendance list" of the Focus Group Discussion in the document has been removed for privacy purposes. 

An article about a worker in the Indonesian fishing industry who experienced harmful labor practices. This worker was aided by a labor practices observer who aided the worker by connecting him to SAFE Seas resources.

This technical brief describes how forced labor and trafficking in persons on fishing vessels affects women, including both women fishers and women who share a household with male fishers. These effects include a lack of mobility and employment opportunities, and financial harm including poverty and debt bondage. A key finding of this report is that harmful labor practices do not harm only the individual fisher, but the entire family unit.