{"id":5549,"date":"2025-04-30T00:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T00:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/starbucks-accused-of-human-trafficking-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T00:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T00:12:59","slug":"starbucks-accused-of-human-trafficking-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/starbucks-accused-of-human-trafficking-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Accused of Human Trafficking in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Starbucks was accused of trafficking and forced labor practices in its coffee supply chain in a 100-page class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs, a group of allegedly trafficked people backed by nonprofit legal advocacy organization<b> <\/b>International Rights Advocates, charge the coffee giant with subjecting workers to &#8220;slavery-like&#8221; conditions at coffee plantations in Brazil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>The lawsuit alleges workers on Brazilian coffee plantations supplying Starbucks are subjected to exploitative labor conditions. These allegedly include being trafficked by illegal labor brokers, known as Gatos. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks was accused of trafficking and forced labor practices in its coffee supply chain in a 100-page class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[334,5722,142,599,2338],"class_list":["post-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-accused","tag-brazil","tag-human","tag-starbucks","tag-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}