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"SOLD" brings brutality of child sex slavery to screen
2016-04-02 00:09:29| IT Services - Topix.net
When actress Gillian Anderson chose to appear in a new movie about a Nepali girl who is unwittingly sold by her impoverished parents to an Indian brothel, her decision had nothing to do with the part, she says. Rather she was drawn to what the film, "SOLD", which opens in New York this week reveals - the exploitation of millions of girls who are sold into sexual slavery around the world.
Nestle sued for supporting child slavery in cacao harvesting...
2016-02-25 12:25:54| Agriculture - Topix.net
The nation's highest federal court in recent days threw out a request by chocolate giant Nestle SA, the world's largest food maker, and a pair of other companies to reject a lawsuit that seeks to hold all three companies liable for using child slaves to harvest cacao in the African nation of Ivory Coast. In rejecting the bid, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a December 2014 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that also refused to dismiss the suit against Nestle, Archer Daniels Midland Co.
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Modern Slavery Act - training for the apparel sector
2016-02-09 13:22:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A one-day workshop designed to help apparel firms prepare for the introduction of the UK's new Modern Slavery Act is to take place next month.
Modern-day slavery and environmental devastation go hand in hand
2016-01-21 02:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Slavery didn`t end with the Emancipation Proclamation. Despite slavery being illegal in every country on the planet, there are more enslaved people alive today than at any point in history. From fishing boats in Thailand to private homes in New York to diamond mines in Congo to rock quarries in India, there are an estimated 30 million people working in bondage right now. That`s right - 30 million. Modern slavery is the subject of Blood and Earth, a new book by Kevin Bales, who cofounded Free the...
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Japanese Firms Cleared in Sex Slavery Case
2015-12-16 11:07:09| Steel - Topix.net
A federal judge Monday dismissed a class action accusing six companies of helping the Japanese Empire force Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nissan, Hitachi, NYK Line and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal USA joined a growing list of defendants that evaded a class action brought by two former "comfort women," but U.S. District Judge William Alsup gave them until Dec. 28 to request leave to amend their complaint.
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