Posts Tagged ‘Harkin-Engel Protocol’
Child Slaves vs Cocoa Companies
A federal class action lawsuit has been filed in the US Federal Court on behalf of eight Malian young men who were trafficked as children and forced to harvest cocoa in Cote D’Ivoire. The Defendant companies are Nestle, Cargill, Mars, Mondel?z, Hershey, Barry Callebaut and Olam. These companies had signed the Harkin-Engel Protocol in 2005…
Read MoreACRATH Newsletter November 2011
Latest ACRATH News In the latest ACRATH Newsletter read about the Minister for Home Affairs and Justice, Brendan O’Connor MP and Mr Michael Danby MP visiting the ACRATH office, the Community Awareness Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) projects beginning in four states, the presentation of a motion on the Harkin-Engel Protocol being presented in Federal…
Read MoreHarkin-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…
Read More10 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…
Read MoreIs the Chocolate You Eat Child Slavery Free?
Harkin Engel Protocol – Ten Years On Monday 19th September 2011 marks the tenth anniversay of the signing of the Harkin-Engel Protocol. The chocolate industry signed up to a six-point road map to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the production of cocoa in the West African countries of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana…
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