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Six citizens of Mali sued Nestlé USA and Cargill, saying the firms had profited from child slavery on Ivory Coast cocoa farms. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, which has placed [...]

Byline: RICHARD POPLAK Lead Canadian author and journalist based in Johannesburg. He is currently working on a book about the Canadian mining industry and is co-director of the forthcoming documentary, [...]

ATS Applies to Alleged Child Slavery in the Ivory Coast Supported by Decisions Made in the US Doe v. Nestle, S.A., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, October [...]

Though child and slave labor is 'widespread, reprehensible, and tragic,' a federal court in the District of Massachusetts found it was not deceptive for Nestlé to omit from product labels [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's top court on Tuesday stirred decades-old resentments that threaten to inflame relations with Japan, ordering a leading Japanese steel maker to compensate Korean men [...]

Byline: Anthony Faiola;Marina Lopes MINDURI, Brazil -- Welcome to Paradise Farm. In the fertile hills of southeast Brazil, scores of Christian workers tend banana and citrus fields, rousing iridescent butterflies [...]

Oct. 06--The latest outrage from the United Nations' increasingly oxymoronic Human Rights Council is a report praising the human rights record of -- hold your nose -- Qatar, with 78 [...]

A Korean immigrant housekeeper has accused her former employers -- a Korean Buddhist monk and his family -- of keeping her as a prisoner in their homes in Queens for [...]

Thousands of desperate women pushed and shoved to get at the relief food being handed out on the outskirts of this flooded city last week. Off to the side were […]

A federal judge revoked bail on Thursday for a wealthy Long Island woman convicted earlier this week of imprisoning and torturing two Indonesian housekeepers in what prosecutors called a case […]

The Justice Department is investigating whether a Saudi princess, arrested here last month on charges that she pushed her maid down a flight of stairs, held the live-in Indonesian maid […]

Rancor mingled with relief as thousands of Nazi-era slave laborers began receiving payments yesterday from a $4.5 billion German compensation fund, more than half a century after the fact and […]

Lawyers who represent Nazi-era slave laborers split more than $52 million in legal fees yesterday for work on a case that will bring Holocaust victims $5,000 to $7,500 each. Eleven […]

SEREMBAN, Wed. - The use of bonded labour particularly in the plantation and labour supply sectors needs to be immediately investigated. National Unity and Social Development Ministry's Parliamentay Secretary Datuk [...]

After more than two years of often bitter negotiations, Parliament approved a motion today that opens the way for payment of $4.5 billion to laborers forced to work by the […]

In an action intended to speed up payments to victims of the Nazi regime, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a federal judge exceeded her authority when she requested […]

Lawyers for German industry joined with lawyers for Nazi-era slave laborers yesterday to appeal a decision by a federal judge that they say will block payment of reparations to victims […]

A federal judge in New York, presiding over Holocaust litigation against German banks, yesterday refused to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that stands in the way of a multibillion-dollar settlement of […]

The common black metal spring clip, an office mainstay, has acquired an aura of misery. According to a case decided last week in a Federal District Court in New Jersey, […]