Jordan: Activists call for improved wages, decent working conditions for women workers in agriculture sector
Published 27 Dec,2020 via The Jordan Times AMMAN — The rights of women in the agricultural sector are the ones “most violated”, said activists, who have been calling for the “just treatment” of female workers.
Calling for better working conditions, pay and safety standards, director of NGO Tamkeen for Legal Aid and Human Rights Linda Kalash said that women workers in the agricultural sector “do not enjoy any kind of insurance, especially social and health insurance”.
The importance of having insurance was highlighted in light of a recent incident in which a female farm worker died in a traffic accident while she was about to board a minibus with her colleagues in the Ghor Al Safi area.
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