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Foreign volunteers replace workers who fled Israeli farms under fire

Hatsav, Israel Reuters Rather than stretch out under the Caribbean sun, Mark Landsman has been spending his vacation picking tomatoes in Israel, unpaid and in striking range of Palestinian rockets. The New Jersey man, among thousands of foreigners who have come to southern Israeli farms emptied of labourers by more than three months of war in the Gaza […]

‘We don’t see it’: Mexican TV series spotlights trafficking in plain sight

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Mexico City, Mexico Thomson Reuters Foundation The creators of a documentary series about human trafficking in Mexico hope the TV show will educate the public about the abuse of workers in plain sight – be it cleaners or farm labourers. The eight-part public television series The Route of Human Trafficking tells the stories of survivors […]