The organization Slave Free Chocolate, which helps spread awareness of and end child labor on cocoa ... research the brand and see if it offers transparency about its supply chain and traceable beans.

To try to make companies abandon cocoa produced by child labor, International Rights Advocates has sued some of the world’s large chocolate companies. It lost a case before the Supreme Court in ...

Mars, the maker of some of America's most beloved candies, has been exposed for using child labor to harvest cocoa beans in Ghana, a new bombshell report found.

The company behind some of your favorite chocolate bars is accused of relying on child labor to assist in the harvest of cocoa beans used in its products, like M&M's and Snickers.. According to a ...

In March 2024, the price of cocoa beans traded on the international market rose sharply, reaching $10,000 per tonne, more than three times the typical average price. The unprecedented surge shone ...

Our cocoa suppliers in Ghana have agreed to adhere to our robust Supplier Code of Conduct and we have also been clear that they must have a Child Labor and Remediation System (CLMRS) in place by ...

The cocoa beans from the new, co-branded treats will be sourced through Tony's Open Chain — an open-source initiative launched by Tony’s in 2019 that shares knowledge and tools to help companies in ...

On 21 September, Alliance 8.7 was launched during the UN General Assembly to end forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour. The aim is to galvanize political support and ...

If child labourers worked on just a quarter of these acres of land, and each child labourer is causing a loss of 0.2Kg of beans to the farmer on each acre, that may seem insignificant but ...

One child nearly lost his fingers while handling a machete to cut open cocoa pods, according to the CBS report. Munira, a 15-year-old girl, told CBS News that she has been working in the cocoa ...

Child labour is widespread on cocoa farms Saturday afternoon in the heart of the Ivorian cocoa belt and farmer Cheba Ouattara is at work on his cocoa farm, his four children beside him. Mr Ouattara is ...