The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 32
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Intimidation is common to the migrant worker experience. In 2015, 245 Zimbabwean migrant workers were harassed, intimidated and suffered retaliation (and four of them physical violence) after they organized to ask for a wage increase on a vegetable farm in South Africa. They had worked 12-hour days, seven days a week, and 17-hour days during the vegetable harvest, but were paid about half the minimum wage. They were forcibly evicted in September 2015, but later vindicated in court, when the judge found they were owed back pay or reinstatement.
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
Movement
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. 32.