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Women choosing abortions to keep work visas, slavery inquiry told
By Emily Doak and Jess Scully

The NSW inquiry into the risk of slavery for temporary migrant workers hears from a doctor who says many women are choosing to have abortions to stay in Australia.

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-19/mod

ABC News · Women choosing abortions to keep work visas, slavery inquiry toldBy Emily Doak

"Monterey County Agriculture is a $4.3 billion-dollar economic sector that depends on 55,000 farmworkers to harvest our crops each year, primarily immigrants; some have resided in our communities for decades.
Our nation’s fresh food supply and local economy are fully dependent on this workforce, and we consider this a #NationalSecurity priority in a time of agricultural labor shortages.” —#MontereyCounty Farm Bureau montereycfb.com/immigration-re

Two-page guidelines below, “What to do if ICE or Border Patrol show up at your fields or facilities,” posted by Rep Jimmy Panetta (California’s 19th Congressional District) on June 10, 2025: panetta.house.gov/services/imm

Farmhand's camera captures rural Australian stories
By Anna Cox

Homeschooled and growing up on a farm, Ellie Morris hopes photography skills honed since she was a child will help people see the beauty rural Australia has to offer.

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-04/ell

ABC News · Farmhand Ellie Morris's camera captures rural Australian storiesBy Anna Cox

May 20th 1873

On 20 May 1873, 16 women from Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire, England, were sent to prison for their role in forming the Agricultural Workers' Union and became known as the Ascott martyrs. Local farm workers had joined the union, so the landowner sacked them and instead hired workers from the nearby village of Ramsden.

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Agricultural workers in the UK on a seasonal work visa are to be guaranteed at least 32 hours paid work a week. A step forward but much more is needed to protect workers from debt bondage and exploitation theguardian.com/politics/2023/

The GuardianFarm workers on UK seasonal visas to be guaranteed 32 hours a weekBy Emily Dugan

More than 70 women on Kenyan tea farms owned by two British companies have told the BBC they had been sexually abused by their supervisors. Secret filming showed local bosses pressuring an undercover reporter for sex; when she made a complaint she was told to ‘stand by her principles’ but no action was taken against the perpetrator bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64662056

BBC NewsPrice of a cuppa: Sexual abuse on Kenyan tea farms revealedSecret filming finds sexual exploitation at Kenyan farms supplying some of the UK's biggest brands.