Indigenous fishing leaders from Panama’s Ngäbe Buglé people are at the UN Human Rights Council this week to highlight the repression of indigenous fishers and widespread fishing bans which threaten their livelihoods. The Ngäbe Buglé now only have access to one fishing ground in Escudo de Veraguas. Fishing bans reflect the structural discrimination and marginalization that fisher peoples and Indigenous Peoples have faced historically and continue to endure today. It also violates the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). FIAN International also calls on Panama to take adequate measures to ensure that Indigenous fishers can meaningfully participate in all policy processes affecting their livelihoods.