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Women fisherfolks in Ghana: violence and systemic exclusion

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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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