Liberia- 1st- Fisheries and aquaculture sector

CHAPTER TWO: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
2.1. Introduction

[…] The various stakeholders’ consultations and research conducted between 2019 and 2023 revealed that various human rights violations and abuses occurred across the Liberian business sectors –  including industrial and artisanal mining, retail and services, manufacturing, fishery, and agribusiness.. These abuses happen irrespective of the size or niche of business operations. […]

2.3.2 Labor Rights

[…] There is limited data on industrial accidents relative to…fishing, and agriculture which are considered the most dangerous sectors. Hazardous occupations are especially dangerous in the informal sector, such as illegal fishing, logging, and mining, where the lack of regulation and remediation contributes to fatalities.[…]

2.3.4. Environment

[…] Among the chief perpetrators involved in environmental misuse and despoiling the fragile balance in nature are businesses such as… overfishing… When such businesses and others remain unregulated, their operations contribute enormously to chronic or long-term illnesses and deaths. International instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights clearly express the rights of people to a clean and healthy environment.[…]