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First Banana Workers Get US Court Trial

It has been some 30 years since thousands of banana workers in Central America claim to have been exposed to carcinogenic pesticides on plantations there. Intended to kill worms infesting the roots of banana trees, the pesticides dripped from the leaves onto unprotected workers and leached into the water supply…

Jul 9, 2007 6:00 PM CDT

Report: Rape Used as Weapon in Sudan

A government-backed militia is systematically using rape as a method of so-called ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region of western Sudan, a report by a humanitarian group says. The Janjaweed militia can do so with impunity due to hostility to rape claims by local police and the difficulty of providing…

Jul 4, 2007 1:18 AM CDT

$7 Billion Drug-Test Suit Allowed

A Nigerian court has refused to dismiss a $7 billion lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. for allegedly testing antibiotic drugs on children in the mid-1990s, resulting in injuries and as many as 11 deaths. The judge ruled the Nigerian government had improperly amended its lawsuit, but said the overall case could…

Jun 26, 2007 4:48 PM CDT

Taking the Initiative

ABA-Africa Works With Local Advisers to Strengthen the Countries’ Legal Systems

Mar 2, 2004 7:37 AM CST

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