La televisión iraní estuvo presente cuando movilizamos el 19 enero hasta las puertas de la Asociación de Semilleros Argentinos por una denuncia de trabajo esclavo y tráfico de personas contra uno de sus integrantes que trabaja a beneficio de multinacionales.
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Activists have gathered in Buenos Aires to denounce illegal activity conducted by corn company Saevent in the north of Argentina.
It’s alleged that Saevent uses not only child labor, but keeps thousands of employees in slave-like conditions – without pay and in squalid living conditions.
Non-governmental organizations, La Alameda and the Excluded Workers’ Movement are leading the fight against Saevent, which is the mother organization of eight other food companies in Argentina, headed by the US group, Monsanto – itself known for dubious practices in the past.
The activists began their legal action just this week after in-depth investigations into Saevent’s work practices.
There has been no response so far from the company.
The United Nations estimates about 10 per cent of Argentine children between the ages of five to seventeen work, while almost four million of 15 to 17-year-olds work in hazardous situations.
In South America as a whole, however, there are about 250 million child workers – or about 26 per cent of the youngsters.
With the incident now before Argentine courts, the wait is on to see what Saevent’s workers’ fate shall be.
Child labor is so endemic in Latin America that it’s clearly going to take more than a few cases such as this to really tackle the problem.