According to BBC’s latest investigative report, female workers working in tea farms owned by popular Unilever and James Finlays suffer immense sexual harassment to stay on the job.
Many of the women who come from poor backgrounds are forced to give their bodies to supervisors, mid and senior managers in order to get and maintain jobs.
Over 70 women working on British-owned tea farms in Kenya say they were sexually abused by supervisors, reports BBC.
The Unilever and James Finlay tea farms are on land where British colonizers used torture and killings to violently displace Indigenous Kipsigis and Talai people.
In the heartbreaking expose, local bosses on plantations owned by Unilever and James Finlay were filmed pressuring an undercover reporter for sex. At the time of reporting, three managers had already been suspended
Watch ‘Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea’: https://youtu.be/1wMdnCx6eUc
