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Article

5 May 2003

Author:
Nicol Degli Innocenti, Financial Times

Gold Fields faces uranium exposure lawsuit

Gold Fields said - just as AngloAmerican did last month - that it did not recognise the jurisdiction of the US courts...Under the US Alien Tort Claims Act, foreign citizens can file claims regarding human rights abuses against companies that do business in the US.

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Update: Lawsuit against Gold Fields, alleging workers were tortured, enslaved, exposed to toxic & radioactive materials

Apartheid reparations lawsuits (re So. Africa)