
It is with pride that we launch in this meaningful day our website and campaign to stop human rights abuses in the Dominican Republic sugarcane fields. Human Rights Day is held on 10 December every year, the date the United Nations…
“Allegations of forced labor in the Dominican sugar industry are very serious,” Thea Lee The ban on Central Romana products in the United States is not the result of an isolated situation. The entire Dominican sugar industry runs that risk…
WASHINGTON, DC—Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Congressman Dan Kildee (D-MI), Chief Deputy Whip of the House Democratic Caucus and co-Chair of the House Sugar Caucus, released the following statement reflecting on their recent congressional delegation…
By Leonardo Blair May 13, 2016 NEW YORK — Cuban artist and poet Armando Valladares who spent 22 years in Fidel Castro’s gulags for refusing to put a placard on his desk at work that said: “I am with Fidel,” was awarded…
mercoledì 13 aprile, ore 17:00 Franco Angeli Bookshop vi invita alla presentazione del libro COME SCHIAVI IN LIBERTA’ di Raùl Zecca Castel Durante l’incontro verrà mostrato il documentario cheracconta le condizioni di vita e di lavoro dei braccianti haitiani impiegati nelle piantagioni di canna da zucchero della Repubblica Dominicana. Introduce Alice…
BITTER SUGAR How money has flowed from the sugar fields of the Dominican Republic to the burgeoning tax haven of South Dakota…link