Amnesty International has asked football's governing body FIFA to pay compensation of at least 440 million dollars to the thousands of migrant workers "who suffered human rights abuses" in Qatar during preparations for the 2022 World Cup. Amnesty has denounced the dire working conditions of migrant workers ahead of the tournament.
The association Cidis is promoting a project in the area around the southern city of Caserta, in Campania, to provide bus rides to immigrant farmworkers. The farmhands get free transportation to the fields as part of efforts to fight the gangmaster system.
A three-year Memorandum of Understanding has been signed in Italy to train 3,000 refugees and vulnerable migrants to work in the construction sector in order to help them towards autonomy.
A branch of the Italian Farmers' Association 'Coldiretti' in the southern Puglia region says there it is facing a serious shortage of workers. It has urged the national government to speed up the issuing of permits for workers from outside the EU.
An investigation in Tuscany has found that three agricultural firms allegedly made hundreds of both Italian and foreign laborers work for up to 16 hours a day, paying them €2.50 per hour.
Rama* left Guinea almost three years ago because she feared for her life. She arrived in Cyprus to begin again. This is her story.
The Puglia region has approved funding worth €158,000 to build a temporary guesthouse for some 120 foreign seasonal farmworkers who will be employed for the cherry harvest season.
Europe's demand for fruit has turned Portugal's Alentejo region into a goldmine for landowners and corporations. Their laborers are mostly Asians hoping for a better life. But they pay a high price.
The trade union FAI CISL in Italy is proposing a motion in parliament that would commit the government to protect the rights of migrant workers. "The 'gangmaster' system and ghettoes are not representative of Italian agriculture," the union said.
The German meat company Tönnies has stopped recruiting refugees at the Polish-Ukrainian border after being accused of trying to make 'money out of misery'.
Samir* worked for over a year using false papers for the DPD delivery group in the Paris region. Frustrated by the working conditions, which he describes as "slavery", the Algerian started a strike with 70 other colleagues, who were also undocumented. For four months, the strikers have been demanding to have their situation regularized.
The Italian branch of UNICEF has announced that a watchdog body will soon be set up to prevent health-related harm resulting from child labor. About 28,000 children are believed to be working in the country, half of them are unaccompanied migrant minors.