UNB, Dhaka :
Speakers at a seminar here have emphasised the importance of improving the human rights condition in the country’s marine fisheries sector as its contribution towards poverty eradication and food security is remarkable.
Ocean provides critical ecosystem services and nutrition, and support human well being and
livelihoods, employment and economic growth, they said at the concluding session of a two-day multi-stakeholder seminar that ended on Monday. The seminar titled ‘The contribution of human rights to the sustainable development of coastal fisheries and poverty alleviation in Bangladesh’ was organised marking the launching of a 30-month research project, supported by the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR). The project, to be jointly implemented by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) and COAST Trust, aims to develop good practices, tools and guidance to identify, address and monitor the human rights implications and impacts of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in Bangladesh.
Speakers at a seminar here have emphasised the importance of improving the human rights condition in the country’s marine fisheries sector as its contribution towards poverty eradication and food security is remarkable.
Ocean provides critical ecosystem services and nutrition, and support human well being and
livelihoods, employment and economic growth, they said at the concluding session of a two-day multi-stakeholder seminar that ended on Monday. The seminar titled ‘The contribution of human rights to the sustainable development of coastal fisheries and poverty alleviation in Bangladesh’ was organised marking the launching of a 30-month research project, supported by the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR). The project, to be jointly implemented by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) and COAST Trust, aims to develop good practices, tools and guidance to identify, address and monitor the human rights implications and impacts of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in Bangladesh.
