Tariffs are not the only threat to work for large companies selling coffee in the United States. On Thursday, a guard group, coffee management, coffee imports block, compulsory labor entertainment entertainment for modern slavery in Brazil, the world's largest coffee grower.
This Customs and Border Protection ApplicationAccording to the Non-Professional Coffee Clock, according to Starbucks, Starbucks, as well as companies that trust in the country's largest coffee seller in the country, as well as Nestle, Dunkin, ILYN, McDonald's and Jacobs, potential suspicious sources. From the Trump administration, any imports from Brazil asks “completely or partly” to allow human trafficking and forced labor.
“It's not a few bad actors,” Etelle Higonnet, founder and coffee clock director a comment. “We are subjected to a system of millions of people who are in extreme poverty and millions of people.”
US survey, lawyers of international rights, a day after another group was given a day later Starbucks Court in the Federal Court On behalf of the eight Brazilian Sold and was forced to make a hard worker Terry Collingsworth, Human Rights Lawyer and the founder of the group.
In Brazil, a costume, a large Starbucks supplier in Brazil and collecting coffee for the cooperative of regional growers, says the suit is equally equally.
“Starbucks must be responsible,” Mr. Collingsworth said in an interview, saying the company has a mass trade and a mandatory system in Brazil. “
A delegation for Starbucks rejected the allegations and said that the company was committed to the ethical source, including the protection of the rights of people working on farms, coffee. “The foundation stone of our work is ours Coffee and Farmer Capital (cafe) experiments The inspection program made with foreign experts and inspections and inspections of a healthy third party, “he said.
Mr. Collingsworth, despite the inspection program, the company did not transparent their experience. The court lawsuit will help him learn more about the supply chains of his group.
Several companies named the application to prevent imports are involved in the rain forest union Continuous coffee problemThe report includes a large number of agricultural workers. In addition to Starbucks, companies did not respond to either comment requests or refused to do it.
Lawyer groups issued a joint statement on Thursday, explaining their efforts, “The cost of the hidden man behind one of the nation's favorite commodities: coffee.”
The purpose of the groups is to break the segment of the Brazilian coffee industry, which is violating the segment of companies supplied by vulnerable workers abroad by human trafficking. The coffee sector in Brazil was established on slavery and broke, despite the abolition of Brazil in 1888, depended on it.
Groups are known as “Gatos” or “cats” – poor, rural communities, search for users from poor, rural communities, and developing funds for food and travel and develop funds. The workers work, “in debt bondage,” they work with what they work in the bodies of the bodies, they work with the fact that they do not differ from the bondage of private.
Other Human rights groupsAs well as News Organizations and US government They reported similar findings.
Four coffee manufacturers, which are part of the COOXUPÉ staff in April, added A Black list of slaves After the inspectors, there were dozens of workers, including a teenager who was subjected to a young man by Brazilian officials. Reporter BrazilA Brazilian non-profit.
In some cases, employees have no water, beds or toilets due to propaganda groups. They work long hours without protective equipment and often don't get full wages or any fee.
The Brazilian government has taken action many times, but because coffee harvest is a seasonal activity, not as much as areas of other employment.
Eight workers in Starbucks killed their names from the fear of the penalty at home. “These merchants are dangerous children,” said Mr. Collingworth. Workers who are trying to leave or report with impatient or death threats, they often prevented the leaving farms.
Legal measures are based on the notes of the Brazilian government, non-profit and journalists, “Journalists, who show a sustainable example of labor abuse throughout the Brazilian coffee sector,” he said. The system, rights defenders, trust in Brazil and trust in American consumers and are billed by corporations abroad.
“No coffee produced by slaves should enter American houses,” said Mrs. Higonnet coffee.