Inter Press ServiceThe Invisibles: Inhumane Conditions of Italy's Migrant Farmworkers https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/08/invisibles-inhumane-conditions-italys-migrant-farmworkers/ News and Views from the Global South Thu, 14 May 2026 08:37:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 The Invisibles: Inhumane Conditions of Italy’s Migrant Farmworkers https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/08/invisibles-inhumane-conditions-italys-migrant-farmworkers/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/08/invisibles-inhumane-conditions-italys-migrant-farmworkers/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:25:01 +0000 External Source http://www.ipsnews.net/?p=168136

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Aug 25 2020 (IPS-Partners)

Over 200,000 migrant laborers, mostly from Africa, work in Italy’s fields. After being exploited for years, the coronavirus global pandemic made these workers “essential” overnight — but without labor rights or even access to basic sanitation, these farmworkers are living and working in conditions that have been described as modern slavery. Union leader Aboubakar Soumahoro has been documenting these inhumane conditions and is now helping the workers organize to demand real and lasting change.

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