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Child slavery lawsuit targets Hershey, Nestlé, Mars and other chocolate giants


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Many people give chocolates as a symbol of love on Valentine’s Day, but for some, the popular candy is more bitter than sweet.
A human rights group filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of eight Malian men who say they were trafficked across the border to the Cote D’Ivoire and forced to harvest cocoa for one or more of seven popular companies, including Mars, Nestlé, and Hershey.
“Enough is enough!” IRAdvocates Executive Director Terry Collingsworth said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “Allowing the enslavement of African children in 2021 to harvest cocoa for major multinational companies is outrageous and must end.” ....

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The Horrifying Reason These Major Chocolate Companies Could Be Facing Legal Action In The US


The Horrifying Reason These Major Chocolate Companies Could Be Facing Legal Action In The US
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By Aimee Lamoureux/Feb. 16, 2021 12:10 pm EDT
The three major US chocolate companies Mars, Nestlé, and Hershey have been named in a groundbreaking class action lawsuit brought by the human rights firm International Rights Advocates, on behalf of eight young adults from Mali who claim they were forced to spend their childhoods working without pay on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast, according to
The Guardian. Other major corporations Cargill, Mondelez, Barry Callebaut, and Olam were also named in the suit.
In 2001, the major chocolate companies signed the Harkin-Engle Protocol, which pledged to eliminate the worst forms of child labor from their supply chain, but now, 20 years later, they have not only failed to do so, they are still unsure where the majority of their cocoa really comes from. Mars, maker of M&M s and M ....

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