but had been brought from elsewhere to work on the farm,” he adds. Mondelez, Cadbury's parent company, says they “strongly refute” allegations that they benefit from child labour. Cocoa Life ...

Presenter Hazel Lindsey travels from England to West Africa, to investigate the use of child labour on cocoa plantations in Ghana. She travels to the village of Akyem Ofoase, about five hours from ...

Child labour on cocoa plantations in Ghana (pt 3/3) videoChild labour on cocoa plantations in Ghana (pt 3/3) In the capital Accra, presenter Hazel interviews Bright Appiah, director of Child ...

My mother grew up on a family farm, the sixth of seven children who all helped ... One thing is universal: whether they are growing coffee or cocoa, rice or corn, all parents want their children to ...

1.56 million children as young as ten are engaged in child labor on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana alone. Traffickers typically promise poor children from neighboring countries money ...

Admitting the rising trend of child labour in the country’s cocoa sector, the stakeholders regretted that many school going age-children were being exploited and being used for hazardous work in most ...

Perdue Farms also violated the Act's "hot goods" provision, which prevents employers from shipping goods produced in an establishment that uses illegal child labor. The $4 million in restitution ...

The number of child labour cases on its farms also fell to less than 4% compared with an industry average of 47%, “giving us confidence there is a pathway to structurally eradicate child labour in the ...

The 9th Circuit found that the payments were akin to kickbacks and that the low price of cocoa was dependant on the child slave labor. The US Chamber of Commerce, the Coca-Cola Company and Chevron ...

Poultry group Perdue Farms has reached an agreement with the US government to support projects aimed at combatting child labour. The $4m indirect settlement with the Department of Labor (DoL ...

said exploitive labor including child labor is a huge problem in the cocoa industry. Her business aims to source its cocoa from farms that treat workers ethically. “Ethically sourced means that ...