A human rights group has asked the U.S. Customs Service to bar imports of cocoa from Ivory Coast unless shippers can prove it was grown free of child-slave labor, a ban that would disrupt ...

More than 90 percent of cocoa from Ivory Coast — the world's biggest producer of cocoa — is procured with the help of child labor, according to Slavery, a documentary broadcast on Britain's ...

About 40 percent of cocoa products imported by U.S. manufacturers comes from the Ivory Coast, where agricultural slavery and child trafficking is widespread.

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Why did you decide to get into the chocolate business and what prompted you to put an end to modern slavery and exploitation in the cocoa industry?

(CN) – Eight Ninth Circuit judges accused their colleagues of “substitut[ing] sympathy for legal analysis,” in a ruling permitting former child slaves to sue Nestle USA, and dissented from the full ...

Tony’s Chocolonely launches a bold manifesto film against exploitation in the cocoa industry with help from the award-winning actor.

If you gave someone chocolate for Valentine’s Day, it may well have come from the Ivory Coast, the source of about 35 percent of the globe’s cocoa production. And if it did come from the Ivory ...

Host Bob Edwards talks with Sudarsan Raghavan, Knight Ridder's Africa Correspondent, about the use of slave labor on cocoa plantations in West Africa. Raghavan says teenage boys are being sold or ...

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 ...

Despite signing the Hartkin-Engel Protocol, a 2001 legislative agreement to end child slavery in Africa, the cocoa giants do not trace the origins of their bean. Since the protocol is non-binding, ...