The first 2017 issue of Yemaya, the gender and fisheries newsletter of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF), recognizes that implementing the gender equality provisions of the Voluntary Guidelines on Small Scale Fisheries is a struggle at two levels. The first struggle is in the household and community, and the second is the level of the state and other stakeholders. Many of articles in this issue of Yemaya amplify on this theme. ...

A drawing competition among Thai junior and senior high school students was held on 4 August 2016, the first day of the 6th Global Symposium on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF6). The competition was organized by the Faculty of Fisheries-Kasetsart University, the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific and the USAID Oceans and Fisheries Partnership. This was the first time that an activity like this was conducted during GAF, involving the youth as part of raising awareness on gender sensitivity and advocacy. ...