UN says Italy must do more against farmworker exploitation
The United Nations want Italy to do more to prevent the exploitation of migrant farmworkers and to dismantle the illegal labor system known as "caporalato."
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Italian farming collective criticizes 'inhumane' new security decree
SfruttaZero produces ecological tomato sauce with the help of migrant farmworkers. The two associations that run the project in Puglia, Italy, have criticized the new security decree and said that "the ethical and moral duty to resist" drives their work.
One migrant dead in fire at migrant 'ghetto' in southern Italy
A young Nigerian woman is dead after a fire broke out on Wednesday in three buildings in Metaponto di Bernalda, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata - a deprived area where dozens of migrant farmworkers live.
Lodgings for 400 workers in Foggia to fight gang-masters
The Puglia region has inaugurated new lodgings in the area of Foggia that will be used to host 400 migrant farm workers with the objective of fighting the gang-master system.
'Rebel valley' farmer starts France's first Emmaus-backed farming community for refugees and homeless people
Cédric Herrou, the French farmer who shot to fame after defying authorities to help dozens of migrants enter the country illegally, has launched France's first Emmaus-backed farming community at his southern Roya valley property. The project will allow for refugees and homeless people, who are otherwise excluded from the labor market, to work on the farm in exchange for a small stipend.
Italy: Migrant farmhands occupy Bari basilica in protest
Farmhands working in fields near Foggia in southern Italy have staged a protest in the basilica of Bari to call for the right to housing and the issuing of stay permits. Attacks on migrant shantytowns continue, said the agricultural workers' union USB.
'What I went to Europe to find, I already had at home'
After spending seven years in Spain, Issa went back to live in his village in Senegal. He told InfoMigrants that many people who are headed to Europe underestimate how hard life can be for migrants.
The Guinean village abandoned by its youth
The Guinean region of Mamou has long seen its young people leave to seek their luck in the bigger cities. But things have gotten particularly bad in the last five years due to the mass exodus to Europe. We visited Dara, a village where elders have to split the heavy farming workload between themselves to survive.
Doctors say over 1,500 migrant farm workers have died in Italian fields
A group of Italian doctors launched an appeal in the British Medical Journal to stop the exploitation of migrants who work in Italian farming. The doctors said the migrants are field slaves who allow for Italian tomatoes to be sold at low prices worldwide year-round.
Migrant trafficking ring uncovered in Italy
Police in Salerno and in other areas across Italy have carried out an operation against a criminal ring allegedly exploiting undocumented migrants and forcing them into slavery.
IOM is helping returning migrants become farmers in Burkina Faso
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is supporting the establishment of livestock farmer groups in Burkina Faso, in collaboration with the local government and with funding from the European Union. The goal: To help returning migrants rebuild their lives back home.
Bleak life for a Moroccan migrant in southern Spain
Migrants working on Spanish farms face hard times due to the back-breaking jobs and low wages they receive. InfoMigrants met a Moroccan woman who struggles to make ends meet.