US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR LAUNCHES INITIATIVE TO COMBAT CHILD LABOR IN COCOA ...The Cypress Times Eliot Engel of New York, architects of a 2001 agreement with the cocoa industry to eliminate the [...]
NGOs slam Hershey over cocoa sourcingAustralian FoodNGOs and human rights groups have accused Hershey of sourcing cocoa from African farms that use forced and child labour in wide-ranging [...]
Sometimes, Child Labor Falls Into Gray AreasNPRThe campaign to eliminate the horrors of child labor has a long way to go. Nearly a quarter-billion children between the ages of five and 17 [...]
This Day in 1910 in The Record: Sept. 14, 1910 Troy Record Barnes suggests that laws regulating or prohibiting child labor would become unnecessary under prohibition. "If all the money spent for [...]
McClatchy Washington BureauUS, industry pledge millions to end child labor in cocoa harvestsKansas City StarThe US government and the chocolate industry pledged $17 million on Monday to help end [...]
"Bitter" Chocolate Report: Hershey Dominates US Market, but Lags Behind ...CSRwire.com (press release) In West Africa, where Hershey sources much of its cocoa, the scene is one of "child labor, [...]
The Upshot Labor Secretary Hilda Solis holds a boubou, traditional ...The Upshot The plan supports the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an international agreement signed in September 2001 aimed at ending [...]
On the trail of human trafficking: stone breaking industry in Nepal CNN International Along a shallow riverbed, I explored seven different villages caught in forced labor, debt bondage, and child [...]
