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Trolleys for easing the burden of women porters in Ceuta “enclave”
19-4-2018
Following a series of deadly incidents and under pressure from human rights organizations, the Spanish authorities and merchants of the Spanish colony of Ceuta located in northern Morocco, reached an arrangement earlier in April allowing women porters to use trolleys. Prior to this agreement, thousands of ‘mule women’ were overburdened by the goods they carried on their backs from Ceuta into Morocco for traders who sought to benefit from customs exemptions on items transferred by pedestrians. The said measure aims to ease the back-breaking and humiliating hard labor by women who carried weights exceeding their own bodyweight. Women complying by the initiative, described it as a good thing, particularly for those with health problems. One woman, in her forties, and a mother of two, said she entered Ceuta twice a week coming from Tatwan (in the North) to arrive back with bags of merchandise which she delivered to local merchants for nearly 20 Euros. But today, she boasted, she employs her two-wheel trolley while she waits to pass routine checks at the pedestrian border checkpoint. (Al Hayat, April 19, 2018)
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