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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.