Dominican Republic: US to look into reports of Dominican sugar abuses - Fox News - International Initiative to End Child Labor

Dominican Republic: US to look into reports of Dominican sugar abuses – Fox News

By Umbrellus LLC

Posted April 24, 2012

In Child Labor News

US to look into reports of Dominican sugar abuses
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Catholic priest Christopher Hartley has accused the major growers of tolerating forced labor, human trafficking and child labor. Most sugar workers in the Dominican Republic are migrants from neighboring Haiti or people of Haitian descent.

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