Kenyan Tea Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever For Failing to Protect Them From Attacks
Tea pluckers say the brutal attacks were foreseeable but the household-goods giant failed to protect them.
Representative image. A boy standing by houses on a tea plantation near Nairob, Kenya. Photo: Bryon Lippincott/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0
World17/Mar/2021
At least four men armed with machetes and clubs broke into Anne Johnsonâs home. They forced her husband and 11-year-old son into the bedroom and kept Anne and her teenage daughters in a separate room. To this day, she doesnât know for certain if the men who raped her, her husband, and her daughters were her coworkers. “They spoke the local language,” Anne testified, but “they blindfolded us so we could not see who they were.”
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By Megan Tatum2018-04-25T09:25:00+01:00
With the publication of data on the gender pay gap now a legal requirement for companies with more than 250 staff, it seems eight out of 10 are paying women less than men on average. A closer look at the figures – and what lies behind them – reveals serious challenges for the food and drink sector
Brits hate to talk about their feelings. Or yours. Or make unsolicited small talk with strangers on public transport. But of all the many British idiosyncrasies it is the downright refusal to discuss our pay cheque that runs deepest.
Believe it or not, we’re seven times more likely to share details of sexual history, infidelities and even STDs with a stranger than what we earn, according to a 2015 study by University College London.
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Natural Hair,” seeks to promote safe environments for Black people who wear their hair naturally and in traditionally Black hairstyles including afros, dreadlocks, cornrows, and braids. Last September, the bill was passed by the United States House of Representatives and now awaits approval by the US Senate. If passed, it would legally prohibit discrimination based on hairstyle and texture across the country, including in the 14 states where it was filed and it did not pass.
The law would stop incidents happening such as DeAndre Arnold, a senior in Mont Belvieu, Texas, being suspended and banned from attending his high school graduation because of his dreadlocks or high school wrestler Andrew Johnson having his dreadlocks forcibly cut by a referee in order to not forfeit his match.
This article is part of The Goodness Issue, a special edition of The Grocer dedicated to celebrating the work the grocery industry has done to tackle environmental, political and humanitarian issues facing the world today
Sebastian Munden is a talker. And that could just get him in trouble with his next appointment. As the self-described “mini CEO of Unilever in the UK and Ireland”, Munden runs a tight schedule. So much so that this interview was only meant to be half an hour, to make way for his next commitment – but Munden has extended the time slot.
So far, we have covered everything from the power of vegan Baconnaise to flaws in the national recycling system, “and we haven’t even talked about the social power of advertising”. It’s all good. At least, like business as a whole, it can do good. Or as he concludes: “I just feel very positive at the moment that out of setback and adversity, we can really create something in the UK in the next couple of years
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