The US Department of Labor has announced the signing of a pivotal framework of action with the governments of Côte d’Ivoire, ...

A ctivists are again accusing Cargill and other major food companies of buying cocoa from West African farms that force children to work in unsafe conditions. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in the ...

Global chocolate makers waiting to see just how far bean prices would fall before making their next moves are realizing they ...

International buyers of Ghana's cocoa have made at least half a billion dollars of upfront payments to state marketing board ...

And that, it says, means the UK should be leading efforts to ensure that all cocoa farmers and chocolate workers, especially women, can earn a living income. The group has called on the UK ...

He also prostituted some of the women to clients while dealing with pimps and other sex workers, court records show. Moncrief's Cocoa office, along with others in Orange and Osceola counties ...

Six African men alleged that they were trafficked from Mali and forced to work on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast. The group say both companies perpetuated that slave trade to keep cocoa prices low.

Hazel is also taken to the cocoa plantation owned by Patrick's uncle, where she interviews children workers. Poor rural families rely on their children to work picking cocoa pods with machetes.