Reports

Feb 2001

Misery Without Borders -- California's army of migrant farm workers has become the latest high-risk group for HIV infection, carrying the AIDS epidemic back to Mexican villages that will soon be facing a full-blown public health emergency.

Aug 2000

Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards (PDF 26kb) -- Human Rights Watch. Summary.

June 2000

Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers -- Human Rights Watch Report.

May 2000

Summary of Farm Labor Contractor Abuses in California (PDF 33kb) -- California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation.

1999

Fields of Poison: California Farmworkers and Pesticides -- A report by the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), the United Farm Workers, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, and CPR reveals that California farmworkers face a greater risk of pesticide poisonings than any other segment of the population and are not adequately protected by state and county agencies.

Oct 1998

Trouble on the Farm: Growing Up with Pesticides in Agricultural Communities (PDF 12kb) -- By Gina M. Solomon and Lawrie Mott. National Resources Defense Council. Executive Summary.