The fundamental human rights of Ghanaian fishing communities, such as the right to adequate food and decent work, are being threatened by the government’s failure to tackle overfishing and illegal fishing by industrial trawlers, a new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has revealed.
These communities are a vulnerable and marginalised group, and urgent measures must be taken by the Ghanaian government to ensure their basic human rights are upheld, as required under international law.
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https://ejfoundation.org/news-media/human-rights-of-ghanas-coastal-communities-threatened-by-failure-to-tackle-illegal-fishing-new-report
EJF 2021