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2019년 1월 30일

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Redress

Employees of a Unilever tea plantation in Kenya turn to the UK Supreme Court in search of justice

A case arising from the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya is being litigated in London, where over 200 victims who were living and working at the time on a tea plantation owned by a subsidiary of Unilever are seeking compensation from the company for the injuries and losses they suffered.

The claim arises out of allegations that Unilever failed to protect their tea workers from the ethnic violence in 2007 at Unilever Tea Kenya Ltd…[when] large groups of attackers invaded the…plantation and attacked hundreds of workers and their families with clubs and machetes…

The claim was brought by 218 claimants, including the families of 11 victims who were killed, and a large number of people who suffered serious violent attacks, including gang rape...

The case failed in the Court of Appeal and the victims have asked for permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court.

On 18 January 2019, REDRESS along with four other NGOs (Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, SOMO or Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, Independent Medico-Legal Unit-Kenya, and International Commission of Jurists-Kenya) submitted a letter to the Supreme Court in support of that application for permission to appeal...

The claim alleges that Unilever had placed their workers in a position of serious risk because many of the workers were from tribes which were not local to the area, so were specific targets of violence from the majority tribe (which surrounded the plantation) at times of social unrest.

The claim alleges that no steps were taken to protect the workers and their families from a foreseeable risk of violence…

The claimants are represented in this action by Leigh Day.

다음 타임라인의 일부

NGOs support claimants' application to appeal to UK Supreme Court against Unilever for its subsidiary’s alleged failure to protect employees from post-electoral violence in Kenya

Unilever lawsuit (re ethnic violence in Kenya)

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