“Italy: NGO MEDU denounces harsh conditions for laborers in Gioia Tauro”

Medici per i Diritti Umani (Doctors for Human Rights - MEDU), an Italian NGO, has denounced the deplorable conditions of laborers from sub-Saharan West Africa in Rosarno, San Ferdinando and Taurianova…

The working and living conditions of laborers on the Gioia Tauro Plain in Calabria, southern Italy, are dire, despite the presence of expensive but unused housing structures…

The MEDU team, through its mobile clinic, reaches approximately 1,500 foreign farm laborers present in abandoned farmhouses, rundown ministerial tents, and old containers…

"The settlement's population is comprised of young men with an average age of 35 who come from countries in sub-Saharan West Africa, in particular Mali, The Gambia, Senegal, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast."…

"This keeps happening as the seasons do," the statement adds, underscoring that "these dramatic living conditions provide the context for exhausting and endless working days, despite a slight improvement in the daily wages."…