Mondelēz International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDLZ) released its 2024 Human Rights Due Diligence and Modern Slavery Report, outlining the company’s progress in helping to prevent, identify, and address potent ...

In 2015 the novelist Ali Smith was invited to tell the story of a former detainee. Ten years on, she explains why the project is more necessary than ever ...

Bibamba, an Edgewater chocolatier, which sources its cocoa from a farm in Cameroon, explains exploitation in the industry in a class for Juneteenth.

Bowiri (O/R), May 14, GNA – Dr Ransford Abbey, the Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has charged cocoa farmers in the Oti Region to increase their production from 1,300 tonnes to 60,000 ...

Your Halloween chocolate may have been harvested by children forced to work in Africa The U.S. Department of Labor reports that more than 1.5 million children work in the cocoa industry in Ghana ...

Chocolate giants, including Nestlé and Mondelez International, have seen a slavery lawsuit brought against them dismissed by a US court.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by eight citizens of Mali who sought to hold Hershey Co, Nestle SA, Cargill Inc and others liable for child slavery on Ivory ...

Four ASU students are helping spread Tony’s Chocolonely's message to eliminate illegal child labor and modern slavery in the cocoa industry as Changemakers on campus.

The low price chocolate companies pay for cocoa keeps farmers in West Africa in poverty, contributing to child labour and slavery.

Analysis - In 2000 and 2001, the use of child slaves on cocoa farms in West Africa was exposed in a series of documentaries and pieces of investigative journalism, sparking an international outcry .

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the world's top cocoa processors has told a Brazilian court investigating child and slave labor it cannot trace its supplies ...

Some are tricked or sold into slavery on those farms where they are forced to carry heavy loads of cocoa, use harmful pesticides, and handle machetes.