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No bed of roses: The Kenyan flower pickers fighting sexual harassment:…
No bed of roses: The Kenyan flower pickers fighting sexual harassment:
Female flower pickers in Kenya:
Many hardships in their work
Victims of sexual harrasment
Low wage
Unfair dismissals
Fairtrade International
Initiative for worker's rights
Creation of a gender committee
39 flower farms in Kenya
Goal: to encourage women to report violations -> building confidence
Global gender adviser and chief operating officer: Tsitsi Choruma
Men's involvement to enhance equality and empowerment
Andrew Odete:
Regional project manager at Hivos International (Kenyan human right's organisation)
Living in fear
To lost their marriages
Not to be able to sustain themselves and their family
Stephen Oburo:
From the Federation of Kenyan Employers
Shifting of the onus to employees rather tan employers
New solutions:
Trade unions and NGOs (right's safeguarding)
Jane Neige (chief executive of the Kenya Flower Council) -> innovative answers to old problems
ATMs: authorization to have a bank account
The role of the European consumers