This week, Human Rights Watch released a report chronicling the sexual abuse of female immigrant farmworkers across the United States. Human Rights Watch states in the report, “Our research confirms what farmworker advocates across the country believe: sexual violence and sexual harassment experienced by farmworkers is common enough that some farmworker women see these abuses as an unavoidable condition of agricultural work.” Click here to read about the report.
Click here to learn more about Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, compiled and edited by Peter Orner. Underground America is Voice of Witness’ remarkable collection of oral histories of immigrant men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the United States.
