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A video featuring statements from workers, fishing industry leaders, and government officials explaining how the SAFE Seas project has helped protect fishers from harmful labor practices.

This handbook provides consolidated guidance on the detection of forced labor among fishers. The handbook is aimed at both state authorities and at non-state actors directly engaged with fishers or otherwise concerned with labor and human rights in fishing. The Handbook is relevant for fisheries worldwide, but the tools it contains will require adaptation to each country’s legal frameworks and fishing industry characteristics. Part I of the handbook describes the broad legal and conceptual frameworks for understanding the characteristics of forced labor in fishing and Part II provides guidance on how forced labor detection can be integrated into the extant compliance efforts.

This impact report summarizes the impacts of the SAFE Seas project in combatting harmful labor practices and protecting fishers. The report describes project efforts to develop policy, improve regulatory capacity, strengthen policy enforcement and reporting mechanisms, establish support mechanisms, increase community awareness and support, and produce new knowledge about fishing communities.

A policy brief created to inform decision makers and government agencies in the Philippines to protect fishers from harmful labor practices. This policy brief contains findings from labor inspections, advice for identifying at-risk conditions, minimum requirements to protect fishers, and policy recommendations. Of note, the "Attendance list" for the Focus Group Discussion & Presentation of the draft Policy Brief on Multidisciplinary Inspection in the document has been removed for privacy purposes. 

A policy brief created to inform decision makers and government agencies in Indonesia to protect fishers from harmful labor practices. This policy brief contains findings from labor inspections, advice for identifying at-risk conditions, minimum requirements to protect fishers, and policy recommendations. Of note, the "Attendance list" of the Focus Group Discussion in the document has been removed for privacy purposes. 

Presentation describing a "social dialogue model" of collective bargaining aimed at promoting decent work standards.

A presentation on ways to develop a roadmap/framework for collective bargaining through social dialogue, focused in particular on the Mauritanian artisanal and coastal fishing sector.

A presentation, written for a workshop of stakeholders, presenting preliminary findings of a sectoral study into the artisanal fishing sector in Mauritania.

The purpose of this guide is to help Veracruz state and municipal administration officials strengthen the institutional capacity and public policies on the prevention and eradication of child labor, and the protection of adolescents of the legal age to perform labor. This guide is meant to be used as a reference document.

A lesson in the "Cocoa Supplier Training on Forced Labour" curriculum. This lesson focuses on strategies that cocoa suppliers can use to assess risk, and what warning signs to look out for.