SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Forty-one years after he first denounced the use of slave labor in a Brazilian farm owned by German company Volkswagen, a Catholic priest is finally seeing the case being taken to ...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday remarked that undocumented workers are “naturally” suited for farm labor, sparking outrage and evoking long-debunked racist theories about Black and Brown people ...
Labor prosecutors in Brazil filed a lawsuit Wednesday against meatpacking giant JBS, accusing the company of buying cattle ...
The U.S. has blocked sea salt imports from South Korea's largest salt farm, over allegations that the farm repeatedly made use of slave labor. According to an April 7 report from the Associated Press, ...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian labor prosecutors charged Volkswagen's local unit with subjecting farm workers to conditions akin to slavery decades ago and are seeking 165 million reais ($27.5 ...
A labor rights group sued Starbucks on Thursday, alleging that it sourced coffee from a major cooperative in Brazil whose member farms were cited for keeping workers in slave-like conditions.
Countries with a high prevalence of modern slavery share common challenges, including restricted civil liberties, authoritarian rule, and poor labor protections. In some cases, slavery is sponsored by ...
“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...
Anna Alejo is CBS News Colorado's Executive Producer of Community Impact. She works with the news team to develop more grassroots relationships and original content at the neighborhood and local ...
FILE - A Starbucks location is seen April 26, 2022, in Havertown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (Matt Rourke, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights ...