Since 2019, the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights and IHRB have been gathering relevant industry experts and stakeholders to improve respect for human rights across the seafood industries. This work sits under the banner of the Ocean and Human Rights Platform, a joint Rafto and IHRB initiative. Outputs include:
- In December 2019, Rafto, the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) and IHRB gathered 25 stakeholders, including companies from the salmon farming and aquaculture feed industries and financial organisations, to discuss the human rights impacts of the salmon farming industry. Read the meeting report.
- In March 2021 FUTURE PROOF, a Rafto initiative, brought together relevant experts to discuss human rights in the seafood industry (recording in Norwegian).
- In December 2021, FUTURE-PROOF, together with DIHR and Ethical Trade Norway co-hosted a webinar about human rights in the Norwegian salmon industry. This webinar built on DIHR's Sector-Wide Impact Assessment on human rights in the salmon industry in Chile, published in October 2021.
Since 2022 Ocean Platform Regional Partner, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), produced a Toolkit for Ocean Human Rights Defenders. The guidance, which can be adapted for human rights defenders in any field, provides a step by step guide to effective community mobilisation, advocacy and defence of human rights for community peoples and grass roots activists.
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