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Group Blames Dole Food Co. for Child-Labor Illegalities.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2002
By Jim McLain, Ventura County Star, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 25--Plantations in Ecuador that sell huge quantities of bananas to Westlake Village-based Dole Food Co. Inc. hire children as young as 8 to spend 12-hour days harvesting fruit under hazardous conditions, a human rights advocacy group charged in a report being released today.
Serious human rights abuses of adult and child workers are widespread in Ecuador, the world's largest banana-exporting country, Human Rights Watch said. The 100-page report, distributed from the agency's headquarters in New York, charged that multinational exporting companies like Dole, Chiquita and Del Monte are not using their financial clout to force plantation owners to respect workers'...
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