USA: Hershey's, West African child labor, and the promise of Brazil's 'cabruca' system - San Antonio Current - International Initiative to End Child Labor

USA: Hershey’s, West African child labor, and the promise of Brazil’s ‘cabruca’ system – San Antonio Current

By Umbrellus LLC

Posted February 6, 2012

In child labor in agriculture, Child Labor News, Children in the Fields, Cocoa + Chocolate Production, Corporate Social Responsibility, Forced Labor, Hazardous Labor, Human Trafficking, Social Responsibility

San Antonio Current

Hershey’s, West African child labor, and the promise of Brazil’s ‘cabruca’ system
San Antonio Current
“Hershey’s pledged to take the first step to address rampant forced and child labor in its supply chain,” said Sean Rudolph, ILRF’s campaigns director, “so we decided to pull the ad as a gesture of good faith.” The scuffle highlights the dark side of a …
How Big Chocolate plans to save its cocoa supplyFortune

all 5 news articles »

Tags: Agriculture, awards, child apparel workers, child carpet weavers, child cocoa workers, child coffee workers, child domestic workers, child factory workers, child farm workers, child fishing, child labor, child labor in agriculture, child labour, Child miners, child pornography, child prostitution, child soldiers, child trafficking, cocoa child labor, Corporate Social Responsibility, hazardous child labor, hazardous work

Umbrellus LLC

Recommended Posts

ABOUT

The International Initiative on Exploitative Child Labor (IIECL), also commonly known as the International Initiative to End Child Labor, is a US-based, not-for-profit [US IRS approved 501 (c) (3)] organization, incorporated in 1999. We conduct and/or provides education, training, technical assistance, capacity building, research, social accountability auditing, resources, and evaluation services to public and private institutions and agencies, non-governmental organizations, and international programmatic institutions that seek to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in the United States and around the world.

Contact Us

We're not around right now. But you can send us an email and we'll get back to you, asap.