NEWS & PRESS
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Nestle, Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill
Winter 2006, Hands on Magazine: The Bitter Sweet Truth-chocolate and Child Slavery
9/18/06, The Independent (UK): Nestlé Poses a Problem To Labour Party Conference
8/25/05, Financial Times: Food Groups Face Child Labor Suit
7/27/05, Knight Ridder: ADM targeted in lawsuit alleging forced labor in cocoa farming
/19/05, Glendale News Press: Labor group sues Nestlé
7/18/05, Datamonitor News Service: US food companies sued over forced child labor
8/26/05, Finanzas.com, “Nestlé, Cargill y ADM acusados por defensores de los derechos del niño”
6/9/05, Reuters: Senator urges cocoa trade to act on child labor
5/29/03, The New York Times: U.S. Agency to be Cited in Suit About Trade and Child Labor
05/31/02, CBS News, “Cocoa and Slavery”
— Chris Saeger, "Strengthening Rule of Law Through Aid for Human Rights Litigation in National Courts: A Case Study of Oil Multinational Corporations Complicit in Human Rights Violations in Sudan and Nigeria (December 2007)
— Terry Collingsworth, "Using the Alien Tort Claims Act to Introduce the Rule of Law to the Global Economy (2005)
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