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Women Agricultural Workers in Tunisia are Dying on the Road
Women agricultural labourers make up 58% of Tunisian farmhands and often work in remote farms and require transportation not provided by the state ...
On average, women workers earn ten Tunisian Dinars less than their male counterparts. Generally, they are regarded as an easily exploitable demographic in a labour-intensive sector with inadequate regulatory oversight ...
The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights recorded 40 deaths and 530 injuries among women rural workers between 2016 and 2020 because of dangerous and unregulated transportation conditions of the so-called ‘death vans'...