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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We see them in piles at the grocery store, on our kitchen counters, atop our cereal, but for many plantation workers in Nicaragua, daily exposure to bananas has had a much more profound impact on ...