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The development comes days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed that the United States lost nearly $65 million over the past two years due to financially motivated ...
“Consumers are paying obscene amounts for a cup of Starbucks coffee that was harvested by trafficked slaves,” said International Rights Advocates founder Terry Collingsworth, who is representing the ...
Two legal actions seeking U.S. government intervention say that some of the coffee bought by major American retailers is harvested in conditions that amount to slavery. By Ephrat Livni Tariffs are ...
Richard J. Cellini directed the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program until he was laid off in January. He’s spent the last three months telling people that Harvard affiliates enslaved their ...
A group of eight workers from Brazil is suing Starbucks, over claims that they were subjected to "slavery-like conditions" by a supplier for the coffee giant. According to The Guardian, one of the ...
Solar panels made with slave labour in China won’t be used by the UK's new state-owned energy company, the government announced today. GB Energy was launched by Labour in July, in a bid to ...
Ministers are set to restrict Britain’s new state-owned energy company from using any solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour in a victory for human rights campaigners. Ed Miliband ...
Ed Miliband is expected to introduce measures aimed at preventing a state-owned energy company from getting materials from Chinese slave labour. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA) The Government is confident ...
Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will introduce an ...
The change will ensure solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries must not contain materials suspected of being produced through slave labour. File photo dated 3/7/2015 of solar panels at Kencot ...
It’s also the image that triggered an exploration of the little-known story of slaves on Britain’s 19th-century postal ships at the Postal Museum. Although the UK had abolished slavery in stages ...