The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 33
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Violence with impunity is also common. In Mexico, migrant farmworkers at one of the country's biggest tomato exporters were physically assaulted when they complained about lack of food or tried to leave the work camp where they were kept "as prisoners". Camp bosses threatened workers who demanded their illegally withheld pay. The indebted workers could not enjoy their assembly and association rights for fear of losing wages that would not be paid until the harvest. The company received World Bank financing and supplied major United States grocers.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Economic Rights
Violence
Person(s) affected
Persons on the move
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/385, para. 33.