Women on Farms Project

This is why Women on Farms Project is calling for an immediate ban on all Highly Hazardous Pesticides!

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UN expert urges tougher action on pesticides in SA Pesticides which are banned in Europe are still exported to developing countries

Today, five years ago, Women on Farms Project (WFP) launched its Double Standards Pesticides Campaign, which initially targeted the South African government, demanding it ban 67 HHP already banned in the .

Yesterday, WFP organised a march with more than 200 women farm workers and dwellers to the German Consulate in Cape Town. Partners, Oxfam Germany, Oxfam South Africa and Farmers' Network South Africa, marched in solidarity and support of farmwomen's demand that the German government introduce a on the production and export of Highly Hazardous Pesticides by German agrochemical companies.

Over the last 5 years, WFP's advocacy on has also included targeting pesticide producer, , as well as lobbying politicians and officials in and .

In South Africa today, the health of farm workers and dwellers continues to be impacted, usually irreversibly, by exposure to deadly pestcides manufactured in Europe, but long banned in Europe. WFP's campaign demands an end to these racist Double Standards: if pesticides are harmful for Europeans, they are also harmful to South African farm workers and communities.

Click the link below to read more about our protest to the German Consulate yesterday!

Farm workers march in rain and wind to call for ban on pesticides They want an end to exports of harmful pesticides from Germany

Join us at the corner of Wale and Adderly street today at 12:30 in Cape Town as we march to the German consulate. We are demanding that the German government immediately bans the production and export of all highly hazardous pesticides that are already banned for use on German soil. Germany cannot continue to export harmful chemicals that they deem too dangerous for their own people and land. ☠️🇩🇪

Oxfam South Africa

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Aunty Bettie: a lifetime of fighting for women farm workers “If you know your rights you can stand up for yourself”

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Sources: 1. Department of Employment and Labour. 2024. The National Minimum Wage a tool to close the wage gap and to overcome poverty.
2. Government Gazette. 2024. Proclamation 167 of 2024: Determination of salaries and allowances of the deputy president, ministers and deputy ministers: 2023/2024-2024/2025
3. John Steenhuisen. 2024. COSATU is the scene of the crime of South Africa’s unemployment crisis.https://www.da.org.za/2024/05/cosatu-is-the-scene-of-the-crime-of-south-africas-unemployment-crisis.

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WFP will be joining various civil society organisations and trade unions today in a picket at parliament to protest against the inhumane treatment of farm workers and dwellers!

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Pesticides that are deadly should not be legal. But they are.

Join us as we call on the government to ban all Highly Hazardous Pesticides immediately.