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Women fisherfolks in Ghana: violence and systemic exclusion

Video Published 12 Feb 2023

Women's work and participation in fisheries industry often remain invisible, this lack of recognition is also one of the contributing factors towards making port a unsafe workplaces for women. When men and women enter the port to earn a living as a fisherfolk, women face different reality which includes verbal abuse, sexual assault, death threats as their everyday challenges. #Thisisourworldtoo. #Systemicexclusion #RatifyC190

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