REPORTS
La Isla Foundation report details use of child labor in Nicaraguan sugarcane fields
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Email: legal@laislafoundation.org La Isla Foundation (LIF) published a report today that examines the use of child labor at Ingenio San Antonio (ISA), the largest sugar plantation and production company in [...]
Ingenio San Antonio Field Visits
Update (Nov, 2017) Ingenio San Antonio (ISA) has reviewed labor practices and ended sub-contracting practices. All ISA employees are now directly contracted, ensuring consistent labor protection measures are applied to all sugarcane cutters. Additionally, [...]
La Isla Foundation publishes study of human rights abuses in Nicaraguan sugarcane fields
La Isla Foundation (LIF) published a report today examining rights violations experienced by sugarcane workers at Ingenio San Antonio, the largest sugarcane plantation and production facility in Western Nicaragua.The report, entitled “Sickly Sweet: Human Rights [...]
Report: Anatomy of a Riot
On March 18, 2013, the tensions erupted when a riot broke out in Chichigalpa, the center of sugarcane production in Western Nicaragua. There, 180 former workers, widows, and their children gathered to protest government [...]
NEWSLETTERS & PRESS RELEASES
Crisis in Nicaragua
LIN is deeply concerned with the ongoing social crisis that has resulted in many deaths and injuries in Nicaragua over the last eight weeks. LIN’s roots are in Nicaragua, where [...]
La Isla Returns to Nicaragua to Strengthen Concepts for Global Focus
Note: The first hyperlink requires a free account to Medscape news, a leading purveyor of medical news. This Newsletter is also longer than usual, but the content is essential for understanding LIN’s strategy and rationale [...]
Adelante Initiative launched in Nicaragua
On 3 August, at mill San Antonio in Nicaragua, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between four organisations, La Isla Network, San Antonio mill, the National Committee of Sugarcane Producers of Nicaragua and Bonsucro. The MOU agrees to set up a new [...]
Kidney Failure Deaths Move Filmmaker to Raise Research Funds
Five men, all sugarcane workers and all sick with chronic kidney disease, were lying in hammocks outside the gates of the company in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, that once employed them. Their friends and families were by [...]
Promising Results of First Evaluated Occupational Health Intervention for CKDu—Though Challenges Remain
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release For more information contact: Ilana Weiss, Senior Director of Public Health and Policy La Isla Network ilana@laislanetwork.org From La Isla Network, July 12, 2017 Results from Year 1 of the Worker [...]
In the Hot Zone
In Sri Lanka’s North Central Province more than 23,500 people have died of Chronic Kidney Disease of undetermined causes (CKDu), earning it the moniker, “the hot zone.” In many communities 15% of the population is [...]
Scope, Impact and Results of the WE Program’s Water Rest and Shade Intervention Study
February 1st, 2017 (Updated February 10th, 2017 to include language that makes it emphatic that we believe A. Water, Rest and Shade (WRS) is a basic human right B. Regardless of CKDu WRS programs should be [...]
Hidden Under the Indian Sun
Hidden Under the Indian Sun was originally published in The Atlantic (USA) in January. The short film on CKDu affecting communities in Eastern India was produced by independent photojournalists, filmmakers, and La Isla Network collaborators [...]
Striking Similarities. Key Differences?
CKDu Field Investigation Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia Tom Laffay 2017 January Summary: On January 10 and 11, 2017 I visited communities in the Cauca Valley of Colombia, based out of the department capital city [...]
