Help us break chains.
Whether we are working to end slave labor or to break the chains of injustice, we need your support.
We estimate that Nestle and Cargill spent over 60 million dollars on legal fees and costs to be able to continue to profit from child slavery.
The large corporations we sue for human rights crimes hire the largest law firms in the country and provide their lawyers with enormous resources to defend their case in Court.
In our cocoa child slavery case we filed in 2005, John Doe I v. Nestle and Cargill, Nestle hired two of the largest firms in the country to represent it, Hogan Lovells, LLP and Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLP. Cargill hired Mayer Brown. The senior lawyers at these firms charge over $1,000 per hour and have every incentive to delay the case as long as possible. This case lasted for over 16 years -- that’s a lot of hours.
Here are some ways you can help.
Support our strategic litigation work. You can learn more here how we use litigation to advance human rights worldwide.
By supporting our Policy and Advocacy work that you can learn about here, you’ll be a part of changing a system that allows forced labor and other crimes against humanity to persist.
Fund our Discovery, Research and Training work to support our ability to stay in the fight. Without capacity to gather evidence, conduct research for our cases, and provide trainings to ensure our stakeholders are aware of the rules of evidence we would not be able to advance justice. Click here to learn more.