New Lawsuit to be Filed in US Against Coca-Cola's Operation in Turkey for Human Rights Abuse

Issued : Tuesday 25 October, 2005

Human rights abuses at its bottling plants in Colombia and Turkey have made Coca Cola the target of a sustained campaign led by a coalition of students on Irish, UK, Candadian and US college campuses, Colombian workers, and a leading American human rights lawyer.

On Wednesday, October 26, at the soft drink maker's corporate offices in midtown Manhattan, the coalition will announce a new human rights lawsuit to be filed against Coca Cola in US District Court; the launching of a series of public demonstrations in over a dozen cities across the US, and a national speaking tour by Colombian workers.

WHO: Colombian Worker representing families of those killed by a
paramilitary death squad hired by a Coca-Cola bottler;

United Students Against Sweatshops, federation of University
labor rights groups on over 100 US campuses;

Terry Collingsworth, International Labor Rights Fund, lawyer
for families of murdered Colombian workers, and tortured Turkish workers.