Drawing on her experience organizing and defending the rights of women workers in the San Quintín Valley, Abelina Ramírez brought the priorities of women farmworkers to the process that will define Mexican policy on business and human rights.
Women's participation in the agricultural sector took center stage at the VII Symposium on Agricultural Social Responsibility, organized by the Mexican Association of Protected Horticulture (AMHPAC) and the International Fruit and Vegetable Alliance for the Promotion of Social Responsibility (AHIFORES).
Sara is a Nahua woman from the mountains of Guerrero. She has been migrating her whole life. In her own words: "Since I was born, I never knew what childhood was, what it was to be a teenager. We were always born migrants." This year, her 15-year-old daughter, settled on [...]
For years, the organizations that accompany migrant agricultural workers in Mexico have brought the same hard-to-counter argument to the same set of tables: Mexican agriculture exports more than 50 billion dollars a year (Banxico, SIE CE122, 2024), is the world's leading avocado supplier, and ranks among the seven top agroexporting [...]
PERIPLO, together with allied organizations, is advancing people-centered human rights due diligence in the agri-food sector, starting from the moment that shapes much of working conditions: recruitment. The labor of migrant farmworkers sustains much of the food that reaches our tables every day, both within and beyond the region. Fifteen [...]
The agricultural industry is a cornerstone of the economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, but it faces structural challenges when it comes to human rights and environmental sustainability. Human rights due diligence is key to preventing and mitigating negative impacts in these areas, by ensuring that companies not only [...]
Introduction Until now, working conditions in the agricultural sector have historically been precarious, regardless of the agricultural holding size. A distinctive feature of this sector is that in view of the increase in the specialized workforce at specific times of the year and the impact that climate and environment have [...]
As many as 94 percent of day laborers work with no contract It is crucial that consumers actively intervene for working conditions to improve for migrant agricultural workers Fundación Avina and its PERIPLO Project launched the Voltea al campo (Turn around and look at the land) campaign, initiating a public [...]
By: Helene Saadoun / Business & Human Rights Resource Centre The protection of migrant workers by companies who employ them or benefit from them through their supply chain labour is not only essential but also feasible. Migrant workers from Latin America are pivotal to economic development in both their home [...]
Polaris, Fundación Avina through the PERIPLO Project, and the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) highly encourage government stakeholders and the agricultural sector to take action in order to protect migrant agricultural workers by promoting public policies that ensure dignified work that fully respects their rights.
