Chiquita celebrates women’s empowerment
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, iconic global banana brand Chiquita is highlighting its commitment to meeting the challenge of equality for women. For example, in the Chiquita plantations of Latin America, a traditionally male-dominated, highly physical line of work in remote locations, women can be particularly vulnerable to violence, discrimination and intimidation. Chiquita has embraced the important challenge of promoting women’s rights and has developed guidelines, codes of conduct and tools to ensure incidents are eliminated as far as possible and that zero tolerance is