Good Chocolate News

Nestlé Eradicating Child Labour From Its Supply Chain In recent months Nestlé invited the Fair Labour Association (FLA) to conduct an audit of its cocoa supply chain in Côte d’Ivoire to determine how to continue improving practices to help eliminate child labour, ensure a sustainable supply of cocoa, and help farmers run profitable farms.  The…

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Ferrero’s Committment – Great News

Traffick Free by 2020 Ferrero has made a commitment that it will eliminate all cases of the trafficking children, forced adult labour and other worst forms of child labour from their cocoa supply chain by 2020.  In doing so, Ferrero is the first global chocolate company to explicitly state they will fulfill the promise the…

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Is your Easter Egg Slavery Free

FAIRTRADE Easter Eggs Much of the world’s chocolate is produced using cocoa beans that have been harvested by trafficked children or forced labour. The West African countries of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are two of the largest producers and exporters of cocoa in the world. The most recent figures estimate that 1.8 million children in…

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New Partnership to Combat Child Labour in West Africa

ILO and Chocolate and Cocoa Industry Forge New Partnership Eight companies in the chocolate and cocoa industry – ADM, Barry Callebaut, Cargill, Ferrero, The Hershey Company, Kraft Foods, Mars Incorporated, and Nestlé – have pledged US $2 million to a new Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the International Labour Office (ILO) to combat child labour in…

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Harkin-Engel Anniversary Noted in Australian Senate

Australian Senators Support Harkin-Engel Protocol During their recent visit to  the Australian Federal Parliament ACRATH spoke to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate about the Harkin-Engel Protocol which aimed at eliminating the worst forms of child slavery in the cocoa industry.  On Monday 19th September 2011, the tenth anniversary of the signing…

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10 Years of Unfulfilled Promises

10 Campaign 10 Campaign and Stop the Traffik has released a media statement to mark the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Harkin-Engel Protocol.  Despite this protocol Child Labour is still prevalent in the cocoa industry. Read more about this protocol  and the campaign to eliminate child labour from the cocoa industry by clicking…

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