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USA: Starbucks sued over alleged forced labour in Brazilian supply chain
Repórter Brasil
On 24 April 2024, eight Brazilian workers filed a civil lawsuit against Starbucks in the United States with the support of International Rights Advocates (IRA), alleging they were subjected to trafficking and forced labour by a supplier of the company. The class-action lawsuit, filed before a federal court, claims the workers in the supplier's coffee farms are forced to work under conditions that "U.S. law defines as modern slavery".
In parallel, advocacy group Coffee Watch petitioned the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency to block Brazilian coffee imports from Starbucks and other major companies, including Nestlé, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Dunkin’, Illy and McDonald’s.