Johannesburg: An Indian activist, who was on board the crashed Malaysian airliner and fought for South African subsistence fishermen, has been mourned by rights activists here.
Chandrika Sharma, considered to be a world leader in fishing rights activism, was among 239 people aboard the Beijing-bound Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 that on March 8 mysteriously disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.
Sharma, 51, is being mourned by South African fishing rights activists as she befriended subsistence fishermen from the South African coastal areas when she was an Indian representative to the World Summit on Sustainable Development here in 2002.
Since then, she played a major role in the development of local small-scale fisheries, said Naseegh Jaffer, director of the Masifundise Development Trust and coordinator of the World Forum of Fisher People.
12/04/14 Business Standard
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Chandrika Sharma, considered to be a world leader in fishing rights activism, was among 239 people aboard the Beijing-bound Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 that on March 8 mysteriously disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.
Sharma, 51, is being mourned by South African fishing rights activists as she befriended subsistence fishermen from the South African coastal areas when she was an Indian representative to the World Summit on Sustainable Development here in 2002.
Since then, she played a major role in the development of local small-scale fisheries, said Naseegh Jaffer, director of the Masifundise Development Trust and coordinator of the World Forum of Fisher People.
12/04/14 Business Standard
