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How can coffee become a better tool for development?

Catherine Cheney

January 28, 2016 |

Devex |

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Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Butembo, Nord-Kivu

All over the world, new fair trade projects or approaches are sprouting up to foster trading relationships that pay off for farmers, giving them more adequate wages and rights.

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Human trafficking: 6 solutions that are working

Michael Holtz

January 25, 2016 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States

Promising and innovative solutions to modern-day slavery range from labeling U.S. food products to forming joint police-NGO task forces. Each addresses a different aspect of slavery in the modern world, a pernicious problem that receives relatively little media attention.

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Human trafficking: California keeps a closer eye on recruiters

Stacy Teicher Khadaroo

January 25, 2016 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Albany, California

A new law seeks to protect vulnerable guest workers and unwary businesses from unscrupulous recruiters by requiring them to register with the state and meet certain requirements.

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Radical idea to help freed slaves: Just give them cash

Michael Holtz

January 11, 2016 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Thailand, Samut Sakhon, Chang Wat Samut Sakhon

In Thailand, the Issara Institute gives freed workers money, instead of services, and a chance to make their own choices. The system disavows paternalistic programs that tie strings to aid.

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Tomato pickers persuade big food companies to sign on to human-rights movement

Lois K. Solomon

December 31, 2015 |

Sun Sentinel |

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Response Location: United States, Immokalee, Florida

Tomato pickers have spent more than 20 years on a campaign for dignity and fair pay. The workers have succeeded, against incredible odds, in getting some of the biggest corporations in the country to recognize their plight.

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Mexico's first 'union' for guest workers fights abuses at home and in US

Whitney Eulich

December 28, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City, Distrito Federal

Formed in 2013, the coalition of guest workers is recognized by the Mexican government. It gives transnational workers a platform to demand solutions to issues like recruitment fraud and trafficking.

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For migrants, a push for cross-border justice

Whitney Eulich

December 14, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Mexico, Guanajuato

The rights of migrant workers, especially related to legal issues, are often ignored. Lawyers are helping Mexican workers sue abusive employers in US courts.

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An epic legal battle pays off for trafficked workers

Stephanie Hanes

December 07, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

Hundreds of Indian oil workers were sent to the Gulf Coast after Katrina, but their working conditions were far below any human standard. In an unprecedented response, they brought a lawsuit against the company that hired them - and won.

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Chocolate gets sweeter: How consumer outrage is reducing child labor in Ghana

Ryan Lenora Brown

November 30, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Ghana, Accra

The cocoa industry’s worst child labor abuses are beginning to be cleaned up. The changes are, in many ways, unprecedented.

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In Florida's tomato fields, a fight for ethical farm labor grows

Patrik Jonsson

November 16, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Immokalee, Florida

Sexual harassment and assault, and almost non-existent job security, are just some of the problems that plague migrant workers in the United States. A decade-long farm worker-led effort to push corporations to demand farmers submit to “clean labor” audits has yielded, for the first time, the introduction of shade tents, mandated water and bathroom breaks.

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