Hundreds of banana workers who were exposed to the banned pesticide Nemagon protested Wednesday in front of Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly demanding compensation for physical and psychological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock In yet another setback in a decades-long fight for justice, farmworkers poisoned by a toxic pesticide had a ...

Lawyers for a group of some 1,200 Nicaraguan banana plantation workers appeared before the Paris Trial Court in an effort to force Dow Chemical, Occidental Chemical and Shell Oil to pay $1 billion in ...

Farm workers left sick or sterilized after working with a toxic pesticide on Nicaraguan banana plantations in the late 20th century await a ruling on their case in Paris court this week. Thousands of ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Five thousand Nicaraguans are confident they will win a legal battle against three American companies. They have launched a $5 billion lawsuit against the ...

Costa Rican lawmakers have cleared the way for banana plantation workers affected by the noxious chemical Nemagon to receive indemnification from Costa Rica’s National Insurance Institute (INS) for ...

Nicaraguan banana workers, like this one in a processing plant, may soon be able to get legal protection in American courts from unsafe working conditions. CHINANDEGA, Nicaragua — Carlos Alberto ...

A Nicaraguan judge has ordered three U.S. companies to pay $490 million to 583 banana workers allegedly affected by the use of the pesticide Nemagon, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said Saturday. The ...

LEWISBURG — A Bucknell University student group is working to educate people about the effects of the pesticide Nemagon on banana workers in Nicaragua with a $10,000 grant from the Davis Projects for ...

Nicaraguan farm workers who were left sick or sterilise after exposure to the toxic pesticide Nemagon on banana plantations in the 1960s, 70s and 80s saw their case rejected by a Paris court on ...