Free the fishing boys: A Press release (summarized below) dated 11 March 2003 from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva, draws attention to child labour in the fisheries in Ghana

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (2003) Free the fishing boys: A Press release (summarized below) dated 11 March 2003 from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva, draws attention to child labour in the fisheries in Ghana. Yemaya (12). p. 11. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

A programme, implemented by the IOM with the Ghanaian authorities, the ILO, Catholic Relief Service and the local NGO APPLE, aims to return to their families more than 1,200 children who have been trafficked into forced labour in the Central and Volta regions of Ghana. To date, IOM staff in Yeji and Atebubu districts of Brong Ahafo region have successfully registered 814 children who are currently employed under slave-like conditions in numerous fishing communities established along the shores and on islands scattered on Lake Volta.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM126
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Ghana, Migration, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Child Labour, Working Conditions, Children, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2021 05:47
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2022 07:00
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/249

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