Women union activists and their allies in Morocco and Tunisia celebrated International Women’s Day this week with events that highlighted the need for a global standard to address gender-based (GBV) violence at work. “Violence is escalating dramatically. Without an...
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In Morocco, the Solidarity Center builds the capacity of workers and local unions through leadership development and advocacy for the rights of women, including agricultural workers. Credit: Solidarity Center/Zineb Arraki
#TimeIsNow: International Women’s Day 2018
Sorting olives, picking peaches and cultivating fields across a vast agro-industrial complex outside Meknes, Morocco, Hayat Khomssi says women workers like her once did not have access to higher-skilled jobs and leadership positions. But after she and her co-workers...
Ending Gender-Based Violence at Work in Morocco Farms
Agricultural work remains one of the most dangerous in the world. And women, who comprise between 50 percent and 70 percent of the informal workforce in commercial agriculture, are especially vulnerable to sexual harassment, physical abuse and other forms of...