Farmworkers rally in Lake Opopka

Tags: human rights, farm workers

Former Farmworkers in Lake Apopka today discussed a new United Nations report that examines the U.S. government’s record on human rights and race in regards to health problems with the farm worker community.

Jeannie Economos is the pesticide projects coordinator at the Farmworkers Association in Florida. She said she had not yet seen the report scheduled to be released today by the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.