ISBN10: 1564322637, ISBN13: 9781564322630, [publisher: Human Rights Watch, New York] Softcover Paperback. The South African government is failing to adequately protect residents of commercial farming areas from violent crime, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today. Black farm residents are most severely affected by this failure, and black women are most vulnerable of all, Human Rights Watch said. The 230-page report, is being published in advance of next week's United Nations conference on racism, to be held in Durban. It is based on research by Human Rights Watch in rural areas of South Africa during 2000. The state response to violent crime against white farm owners and managers could and should be improved, Human Rights Watch said, but black farm workers and their families have much more difficulty getting help from the criminal justice system. "Attacks against farm owners have gotten most of the attention, but attacks against other form residents are a much bigger problem," said Bronwen Manby, deputy director of the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch and the main author of the report. "Farmworkers and other rural dwellers are more vulnerable to violence, including from their employers, and less likely to get help from the police and courts."In South Africa, where land ownership was restricted to whites for most of the twentieth century, most farm owners are still white, whereas farmworkers are mostly black. Since the ...

ISBN10: 1564322637, ISBN13: 9781564322630, [publisher: Human Rights Watch] Softcover
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