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How ethical are Nestlé's Labor Issues practices?
Title: Nestle sued for human trafficking
Consumer Interest: Labor Issues (change)
Netle was sued by the International Labor Rights Fund, ILRF, in Federal District Court in Losa Angelos for "involvement in the trafficking, torture, and forced labor of children who cultivate and harvest cocoa beans". The suit is filed on behalf of a class of Malian children, who were shipped from Mali to the Ivory Coast, and forced to work up to 14 hours a day without pay, suffiecient food and rest, or safety of person (there were frequent beatings reported). Three children who are representing are doing so anonymously for fear of repurcussions from the cocoa farm owners implicated.
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