Women’s voices must be heard in the battle to save the ocean

Jan 11, 2019

Cecilia Villegas, 77, throws a fishing line along the sea of the Pacific coast of Cano Ciego Island near Puntarenas city October 3, 2012. Villegas leaves her home in Cano Ciego Island every morning to fish, which is her only means of survival. Fishing is the only source of income for the the thirty families in this small island.

Women depend on and work the oceans just as much as men, but gender parity in the sector is a long way off Image: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate

Laura Liswood

Secretary-General, Council of Women World Leaders

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