BBC News
By David Cowan
Published
Seven farm workers from Kenya are suing one of the world s biggest tea producers for damages in a personal injury court in Scotland.
The tea pickers allege they have suffered severe health problems because of working conditions on farms run by James Finlay Kenya Ltd.
It is part of a multi-national company which can trace its roots back to Glasgow in the 18th Century.
The firm is opposing the action and has defended its health and safety record.
Finlays began as a cotton trader in Scotland in 1750 and now has operations on five continents, with Starbucks among its customers.
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Hidden slavery behind your weekly shop with kids as young as 6 sold for £210 & fishermen murdered by crews
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Updated: 2 Feb 2021, 11:21
WITH an aching back, and hunger pangs ripping through his stomach, 15-year-old Abou Traore uses a heavy machete to hack through the dense brush of a cocoa plantation.
The teenager, who has been working long hours on the farm since the age of ten, is one of 16,000 children forced into child labour in West Africa - so that Brits can enjoy their favourite chocolate bars.
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A nine-year-old child pictured by Unicef working with a machete on a cocoa farmCredit: Mirrorpix
Dear Dr Wollenstein,
Last week, in a BBC interview, you defended your company’s decision to continue operating a car plant in the Uighur region of China, where forced Uighur Muslim slave labor is rampant, and up to three million Uighurs are detained in concentration camps.
These human rights atrocities are part of what our letter from over 75 international faith leaders, and the Canadian Parliament, declare is a genocide or potential genocide that includes the forced sterilization of women and the removal of nearly a million children from their Uyghur families to Han Chinese boarding schools.
Although you stated in the interview that your best due diligence shows you use no forced labor, you were honest enough to accept you could never reach 100 percent certainty.