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Morocco has green-lighted a trip by 900 seasonal workers to Corsica to help French farmers there save the clementine season among a shortage of labor. An agreement to this end was reached between Morocco and France. The Moroccan workers will test for Covid-19 in departure and upon arrival. Corsican farmers have booked five flights to […]
Eight NGOs, including the international organization Women’s Link Worldwide, have called on the United Nations to investigate urgently the human rights violations suffered by the Moroccan women seasonal workers and other migrants who work in the strawberry and red fruit harvest in Huelva, Spain. The NGOs warn of the risk that COVID-19 pandemic poses to […]
Thousands of Moroccan female seasonal workers working in Spanish strawberry farms continue to live in dire conditions in Spain despite multiple promises to improve their working environments, wrote Nuevatribuna. This year 16,500 Moroccan woman prepare to work in the fields of the Huelva region where slavery-like practices persist with workers having to walk several kilometers […]
Morocco and Spain promised to protect the rights of Moroccan female seasonal workers who travel every year to the region of Huelva to work in strawberry fields. In 2018-2019 season they were 14,583 who worked in Huelva in an operation lauded in a joint Moroccan-Spanish statement as “successful.” This form of regular migration was “beneficial […]
The Spanish government has offered 10,400 new contracts to Moroccan seasonal workers in 2018, to work mainly in strawberry and other red fruit and citrus farms. The contracts number was unveiled at a meeting between farmer representatives and authorities in charge of employment, Spanish media reported. The strawberry and berry campaign will take place in […]