Hershey sued for info on use of child labor in cocoa supplies
The company was sued by a pension fund seeking the records, aiming to prove the company used forced child labor in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Last month, Hershey said it was [...]
“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.”
The company was sued by a pension fund seeking the records, aiming to prove the company used forced child labor in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Last month, Hershey said it was [...]