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In 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report on labour conditions around the world [53] in which a List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor mentioned five countries where the cocoa industry used child labour, and two countries where the cocoa industry used child labour and forced labour. [54]
Boy collecting cocoa after beans have dried. The Harkin–Engel Protocol, [a] sometimes referred to as the Cocoa Protocol, is an international agreement aimed at ending the worst forms of child labor (according to the International Labour Organization's Convention 182) and forced labor (according to ILO Convention 29) in the production of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate.
Consolidated with Cargill, Inc. v. Doe, [1] the case concerned a class-action lawsuit against Nestlé USA and Cargill for aiding and abetting child slavery in Côte d’Ivoire by purchasing from cocoa producers that utilize child slave labor from Mali. The plaintiffs, who were former slave laborers in the cocoa farms, brought their claim in U.S ...
Image of video footage of Texas Department of Public Safety trooper interviews with unaccompanied minors arriving in Texas. The children, between ages 2-17, claim to arrive without their parents ...
The U.S. Department of Labor's 2014 List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor details more than 350 goods produced by child and forced labor. The report also reveals that criminals ...
A Cocoa mother was arrested more than two months after a bomb threat was called in to a local high school. Cocoa mother arrested after police say she threatened school with bomb if her child not ...
Founded in 1947, the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) has published numerous reports on the subject of labor, child labor, forced labor and forced child labor around the world. [15] [16] [17] Since 2009, [18] the Bureau has been issuing an updated List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor yearly. The report listed 122 ...
U.S. customs authorities have asked cocoa traders to report where and when they encounter child labour in their supply chains in top grower Ivory Coast, three industry sources said, following ...