Is it true women workers are regularly abused?
No. This is journalistic headlines at its worst and a story that gets rolled out by certain organisations to get media coverage – usually around Valentines and Mother’s Day. However Colombia takes these allegations very seriously and has repeatedly asked for the sources to be identified, in confidence, so that they can carry out independent investigations. So far that information has never been forthcoming and as a result the allegation cannot be verified or disputed. The trouble is the damage is done and people believe it because they’ve read it in a paper or on the Internet. In this case we would suggest that you can’t believe everything you read!
