Child Labor In Cote D Ivoire And Ghana Offers Further Evidence That Hershey Cocoa Industry Are Failing To Address Abusive Child Labor Articles & Analysis: Older
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Planning on buying your sweetheart Hershey chocolates for Valentine's Day? You might not be "in the mood" to do so if you knew where that chocolate came from in Western Africa, where trafficked child labor is widely used for chocolate production. Unlike most leading global chocolate makers (including those in the U.S.), Hershey is still declining to take steps to curb such abuses in its supply ...
The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) today announced the recipients of the 25th Annual Lewis Hine Awards for Service to Children and Youth. The Awards recognize unheralded individuals who have dedicated themselves, as professionals or volunteers, to the health, education, and well-being of young people. The Awards will be presented at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City on the evening of ...
CHICAGO, IL - Dec. 15, 2010 - Two new public opinion surveys released today by Do Well Do Good, LLC indicate that consumers demand that companies should engage in cause-marketing and corporate social responsibility programs. Over 88% of consumers think companies should try to achieve their business goals while improving society and then environment and 83% of consumers think companies should ...
Good news for parents this Halloween: It's easier than ever to avoid buying chocolate from Hershey, the largest U.S. chocolate company. Hershey fails to ensure that child labor is not part of its chocolate. Two major reports this September called out Hershey's failure and the prevalence of egregious child labor, forced labor and trafficking abuses in the cocoa sector in Côte d'Ivoire and ...
The Payson Center for International Development at Tulane University released its fourth annual report on Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. The report underscores the lack of progress that is being made by voluntary programs adopted by the cocoa industry to address the problems of child and ...
As fall returns in North America, the lunch boxes and Halloween candy bags of America's children will be filled with Hershey Bars, Hershey's Kisses, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and other confections of the Hershey Company. But what most American parents don't realize is that "halfway across the globe, there is a dark side to Hershey. In West Africa, where Hershey sources much of its cocoa, the ...