A group of Kenyan tea plantation workers who say Unilever failed to protect them from ethnic violence have escalated their battle for reparations to the United Nations. “There are heartbreaking stories,” lawyer Daniel Leader of international law firm Leigh Day, which is representing the workers, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The complaint has been made to the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. Unilever failed to provide assistance after the violence and stopped their wages for six months, exacerbating their suffering, victims said. But the victims say Unilever has tried to hide behind its corporate structure to block any prospect of a remedy.

Source: Standard Digital July 30, 2020 18:51 UTC