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High hopes, low prices: How Nestlé is driving Mexican coffee farmers to ruin
Nestlé wants to be a leader in terms of ethical behaviour. However, Nestlé pursues a ruthless purchasing policy, particularly for its instant coffee. The farmers pay the price, as research in Southern Mexico shows.
Child Labor in the Coffee Sector in Eastern Uganda
Engaged in such activities as picking and sorting berries or transporting beans and supplies, children working in Uganda’s coffee supply chain experience risks to their safety and mental and physical wellbeing.
Coffee Stain: Coffee Workers in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Supermarkets' CSR
Oxfam Brasil examines informality, poverty, slave labour, and other abuses in coffee, and calling on large supermarkets and other large corporations’ to safeguard the rights of the rural workers involved.
Picked by slaves: coffee crisis brews in Brazil
A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation over six months uncovered extensive slave labor running largely unchecked in Brazil's billion-dollar coffee industry despite years of efforts to clean up the sector - which could put sales at risk.
Bitter brew: Modern slavery in the coffee industry in Brazil
Despite repeated pledges to address the issue, major coffee brands are still failing to eradicate modern slavery from their supply chains. This report documents forced labour, debt bondage, and other abhorrent forms of exploitation in Brazilian coffee.
Caffeine Jungle - Child labor, struggling farmers found on 'ethically' certified coffee farms in southern Mexico
Child labor, struggling farmers found on 'ethically' certified coffee farms in southern Mexico. "Impact" discovered a group of children working on a Rainforest Alliance-certified farm in Chiapas, Mexico in 2021, with some as young as 6 years old.
Labor rights violations at Brazil coffee farm linked to Starbucks, Nespresso
Coffee farm laborers from the world’s largest coffee cooperative had up to 30% of their wages slashed illegally by a company supplying beans to coffee giants such as Starbucks and Nespresso. 140 workers were rescued from slave-labor-like conditions.
Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm
Eight months after slave labor was discovered at the Cedro II farm in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Starbucks and Nestlé-controlled brand Nespresso — both of whom had quality certified the farm — said they would stop sourcing coffee there.
Starbucks: slave and child labour found at certified coffee farms in Minas Gerais
An exclusive investigation reveals cases of slave and child labor in Brazilian coffee farms holding the C.A.F.E. Practices certification, owned by Starbucks in partnership with SCS Global Services (also holding the UTZ seal).
Multinational coffee companies ignore accusations and continue buying from suppliers linked to farms with slave labour in Brazil
Incidents of labour under conditions analogous to slavery on Brazilian coffee farms during the 2021 harvest were not enough to provoke a reaction from major importers of the bean in the US and Europe. They still buy coffee “contaminated” by abuses.
Dispatches Starbucks and Nespresso the truth about your coffee - in Guatemala
Child labour row as Channel 4’s Dispatches reveals the truth about coffee farms that supply beans to Starbucks and Nespresso. Children under 13 filmed working around 40-hour weeks in gruelling conditions. George Clooney praised the investigation.
Nespresso e Starbucks compraram café de fazenda flagrada com trabalho escravo
A Nespresso, marca controlada pela Nestlé, vai suspender a compra do café da fazenda Cedro II, que entrou na “lista suja” do trabalho escravo divulgada nesta quarta-feira (3) pelo governo federal.
