Posts Tagged ‘slave labor’

Why Holocaust Stories Still Have Meaning and Relevance

Friday, October 30th, 2009

It’s been 64 years since the end of World War II but Holocaust stories in popular culture continue to cascade. Kate Winslet won an Oscar this year for her portrayal of a concentration camp guard in The Reader. John Demjanjuk, who served as a guard at three different death camps, was deported from the United [...]

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Nucor Corp. – Modern Slavery Report

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

WHEREAS

Bloomberg Markets Magazine reported in a cover story that “Nucor Corp., the second-largest U.S. steel company, buys pig iron made with charcoal produced by slaves.” The article reported that certain entities in Nucor’s supply chain were identified by Brazilian labor officials as using slaves and also discussed the use of illegal logging in charcoal camps. [...]

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