SFF met former heads of UN in Somalia
Somali Fair Fishing met 2009 Puntland presidential candidate Nuradin Dirie and former head of UNICEF in Somalia Christian Balslev-Olesen this week.
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SFF is nominated to the LIVIA award 2012
The LIVIA award is awarded annually by the LIVIA foundation to a person or project deserving honor for solving conflicts. A person or a project that courageously, creatively and without force handle societal conflicts in Denmark or abroad. Somali Fair Fishing is among the 12 proposals, chosen from a pool of 73, which has been nominated to the LIVIA award. The winner will be […]
Somali Fair Fishing homepage
Somali Fair Fishing now has a homepage, www.fairfishing.org.
Somali Fair Fishing in the EU-Parliament
Representatives of the board and secretariat of Somali Fair Fishing were in Brussels presenting the project vision, mission and roadmap to the international maritime community, invited by the Danish Shipping Association, after being present at a piracy hearing in the EU Parliament.
Formal establishment of Somali Fair Fishing
Somali Fishing Fair was formally established. The board were elected; mandate and an organisational framework were decided. Knud Vilby was elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors, while Frederik Noltenius Busck was set to head the Secretariat.
Somali fair Fishing in Danish Media
The basic idea of Somali Fair Fishing was presented in the national Danish newspaper, Politiken. Read the article.
Somali Fair Fishing expert workshop
Challenges and opportunities for the project were identified by experts from the Danish governmental administration, the Danish Navy, the Somali diaspora, NGO’s working in Somalia, independent development experts and the shipping business.
