AJ+ – 14-3-2025
Tens of thousands of former farmworkers claim they’ve been rendered sterile by a highly toxic pesticide known as DBCP, unable to ever have children.
Though DBCP was banned by the U.S. government in the 70s, U.S. fruit companies continued to use it abroad in poorer countries with fewer regulations.
Decades later, these farmworkers are still fighting for justice, filing lawsuits against some of the world’s biggest corporations. Yara travels to Costa Rica to investigate one of the most devastating occupational health disasters in history.
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I am chief admin, author and translator of DCN System, which includes dotchuoinon.com (the only Vietnamese-language website devoted exclusively to positive thinking), cvdvn.net (Conversations on Vietnam Development), and a number of related forums and Facebook pages.
I am also legal assistant to attorney Trần Đình Hoành in legal cases involving Vietnam.
I am studying and teaching the Bible and Buddhism. I am a Biotechnology Engineering graduate from Hue University of Sciences. I love living with nature. I practice the Energy Training exercise system for health, and enjoy gardening and life beauty as a hobby.
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