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Protection for Colombian agricultural trade union leaders – ACT NOW!

On Saturday 1 July, Alberto Román Acosta González (pictured above), President of the Guacarí branch of the National Union of Workers in Agricultural Industries (SINTRAINAGRO) in Colombia, was assassinated in the Valle del Cauca’s sugar plantation zone. This attack followed an earlier grenade attack in March this year at SINTRAINAGRO…

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'It's darkening Ireland's name': Inside the row between Fyffes and its Honduran workers

Serious allegations have been levelled at the company, one of the country’s biggest corporate successes. Article reproduced from https://fora.ie BY PAUL O'DONOGHUE REPORTER, FORA THOUSANDS OF MILES away from her employer’s Dublin base, Oglis Mejia harvests melons under the scorching Honduran sun, struggling to provide for her five children. The…

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Toxic herbicide banned amid calls for halt to pineapple expansion in Costa Rica

The government of Costa Rica announced on 16 May that it is to ban the use of the toxic chemical herbicide Bromacil throughout the country. The chemical is widely used by pineapple farmers, but poses a high risk of contaminating groundwater and affecting human health. Effects on human health include…

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Protection for Colombian agricultural trade union leaders – ACT NOW!

'It's darkening Ireland's name': Inside the row between Fyffes and its Honduran workers

Toxic herbicide banned amid calls for halt to pineapple expansion in Costa Rica

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Protection for Colombian agricultural trade union leaders – ACT NOW!

'It's darkening Ireland's name': Inside the row between Fyffes and its Honduran workers

Toxic herbicide banned amid calls for halt to pineapple expansion in Costa Rica

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