Sexual Harassment: Human Rights Watch

Sexual Violence Dept: "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," said the report by the international rights group, according to CTV. An estimated 630,000 of the 3 million people who perform migrant and seasonal farm work are female. The federal government estimates that 60 per cent of them are illegal immigrants and fRESNO, Calif. Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful of calling police, according to a report being released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch. The report describes incidences of rape, stalking, fondling and vulgar language used against women, who say they often don't report it because they are afraid of being fired or deported. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.