3.5 Million Indigenous Day Workers in Mexico Lack Labor Rights Carolina Gomez Mena - La Jornada
go to original July 6, 2013

In Mexico, the systemic violation of human rights of 3.5 million indigenous day workers persists, the result of the familiar exodus to work in the fields of 16 states in a context of marginalization and poverty, lamented the general director of the Anauatlali Association for Rural Property Rights, Cecilia García.

She considered that as part of the reform that president Enrique Peña Nieto recently proposed to constitutional Article 123, section A, subsection III, that establishes 15 as the minimum age to seek employment, sanctions for those who violate the labor rights of agricultural workers, particularly those of minors, should be stiffened.

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