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Colombia Trade Agreement, Violence Against Trade Unionists, Plan Colombia

Response to The New York Times March 29, 2008 Op Ed, "Killing a Trade Pact" [1]

Letter to Uribe from Human Rights NGOs Regarding Recent Wave of Violence Against Human Rights Defenders and Trade Unionists (March 25, 2008)
[2]

April 3, 2008

Ecuador, Pending Worker Rights Complaint [3]

June 16 2006

June 14 2006

February 14 2006

June 12 2005

June 9 2005

June 8 2005 Julián Sánchez, El Universal

"Rechaza Mattel vínculos con firma que supuestamente emplea a niños" [4] May 26 2005, La Jornada

Press Archives, Selected

Bananas and Worker Rights

"In Ecuador's Banana Fields, Child Labor is Key to
Profits" [5] July 13 2002 Juan Forero, New York Times

Coffee and Worker Rights
[6]

"Group: Coffee Giant Slow to Keep Guatemala Promise" [7]
March 6 1997
Christopher Solomon, Seattle Times

"Starbucks Will Help Workers; Code for Guatemalan Suppliers Due" [8]
Imbert Matthee, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
February 16 1995

Sweatshops and Worker Rights
[9]

"PVH, In Reversal, Plans to Negotiate with Union in Guatemala" [10] March 18 1997
Wendy Bounds, Wall Street Journal

"Critics Confront a CEO Dedicated to Human Rights" [11] February 24 1997
Wendy Bounds, Wall Street Journal

Source URL: http://usleap.org/press

Links:
[1] http://usleap.org/files/NYTimesOpEdResponseUpdated.doc
[2] http://usleap.org/files/Joint%2520NGO%2520Letter%2520to%2520Uribe.pdf
[3] http://usleap.org/files/ATPDEAMarch2005.prn__0.pdf
[4] http://usleap.org/files/La%2520Jornada%2520%2528Mattel%2529.pdf
[5] http://usleap.org/files/usleap/Bananas.NYT_.Forero.pdf
[6] http://usleap.org/files/usleap/Starbucks.Seattle.Soloman.pdf
[7] http://usleap.org/files/usleap/Starbucks.Seattle.Soloman.pdf
[8] http://usleap.org/files/usleap/Starbucks.Seattle.1995.pdf
[9] http://usleap.org/files/PVH.March1997.Bounds.pdf
[10] http://usleap.org/files/PVH.March1997.Bounds.pdf
[11] http://usleap.org/files/PVH.Feb97.Bounds.pdf