‘We are the ones that suffered the most’ - The human rights impacts of the Fishrot corruption

tween the victims of Fishrot and those who may We would like to thank the labour unionists who also have suffered and lost their jobs due to the participated in this study especially Philip Munen- general volatility and other issues in the fishing guni, the acting president of the National Union industry. [...] With regard to the specific human rights-related indignities suffered or experienced, the former fishermen and fisheries workers point to the following: • The unreasonable, unexpected and unexplained loss of decent employment and in- comes; • The inability to secure new employment and similar, decent incomes; • The inability to maintain a decent standard of living, hygiene and sanitation for them-. [...] > ‘We are the ones that suffered the most’ – the human rights impacts of the fishrot corruption scandal on fisheries Workers 17 NaMSov FIShINg ENTERPRISES Being a permanent employee would mean that he he financially supported his mother back in the north could go to the bank to get a loan with which he could and his nieces and nephews – the children of his eight start a business, which was what he. [...] When Up to the end of 2019 he had paid about N$12,000 he went to the office he received a severance letter per term to have his daughter at the school, he says, and a certificate of service, and he and the other but he couldn’t send her back because he didn’t fishermen were told that there was no longer work have the money. [...] “About the way we Ndillinaye said that he was paid a basic salary of were and the way we are now.” N$4,800, but averaged monthly earnings of between He says that he also asks the mothers of his other N$15,000 and N$20,000 per month over the five three children to tell the children how he was before years he was a Heinaste fisherman.