Archive for June 10th, 2024

10/06/2024

Millions of Migrant Farm Workers Exploited in Europe’s Fields: Oxfam

Human Wrongs Watch

By OXFAM*

  • Approximately 1 in 4 workers in Europe’s agriculture sector are migrants. 
  • Migrant workers face violence, long working hours, and routine underpayment. 
  • The new EU supply chains law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, is a tool to combat this exploitation.

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Europe’s agriculture industry is exploiting the at least 2.4 million migrants who harvest Europe’s fruits and vegetables. This is according to a new report published on 4 June 2024 by the University of Comillas and Oxfam researchers titled “Essential but invisible and exploited.” 

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10/06/2024

India’s Election: Cracks Start to Show in Authoritarian Rule

Human Wrongs Watch

LONDON, Jun 7 2024 (IPS)* – India’s Hindu nationalist strongman Narendra Modi has won his third prime ministerial term. But the result of the country’s April-to-June election fell short of the sweeping triumph that seemed within his grasp.
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Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has shed seats compared to the 2019 election, losing its parliamentary majority. Modi remains prime minister thanks to coalition partners. It’s a long way from the 400-seat supermajority Modi proclaimed he wanted – which would have given him power to rewrite the constitution.

The outcome may be that Modi faces more checks on his power. If so, that can only be good news for those he’s consistently attacked – including civil society and India’s Muslim minority.

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10/06/2024

Gaza: Deaths and Devastation During Hostage Rescue Operation Show ‘Seismic Trauma’ of Ongoing War

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The scenes of devastation witnessed in the aftermath of Israel’s military operation to release hostages from the Nuseirat refugee camp proves that each day the war continues “it only grows more horrific” the UN’s top humanitarian official said on Sunday [].

The aftermath of an attack on a UN school-turned shelter in Nuseirat on 6 June, where at least 35 displaced people were killed during an Israeli airstrike.
© UNRWA | The aftermath of an attack on a UN school-turned shelter in Nuseirat on 6 June, where at least 35 displaced people were killed during an Israeli airstrike.