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Article: Is the BBC Fair to Fair Trade?
- 3.29.2010 This is a response from the International Labor Rights Forum to a recent BBC report about labor problems on Fair Trade Certified cocoa farms in West Africa. ... |
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Link: Sierra Leone’s First Fair Trade Certified Cocoa
- 2.23.2010 "Divine Chocolate, the pioneering Fair Trade chocolate company co-owned by the Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Cooperative in Ghana, has recently announced that the very first Fair Trade Certified cocoa from Sierra Leone will soon be used in all of Divine’s chocolate delights." ... |
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Article: NOT FOR SALE CAMPAIGN & INT'L LABOR RIGHTS FORUM
- 2.12.2010 An overview of Free2work.org, specifically information regarding chocolate and chocolate companies for upcoming Valentine's Day. ... |
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Link: Barry Callebaut Confirms Strong Growth in Demand..
- 2.11.2010 ..for Certified Cocoa and Chocolate! Green&Blacks has pledged to go 100% Fair Trade in the future. ... |
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Link: Broken Hearts
- 2.11.2010 This is the latest report by the International Labor Rights Forum analyzing the chocolate industry's initiatives to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in West Africa's cocoa sector as part of the Harkin-Engel Protocol. The report is a follow-up on recent developments in the Harkin-Engel Protocol process since the publication of ILRF’s last cocoa industry report titled “The Cocoa Protocol: Success or Failure?” published on June 30, 2008. The report shows how chocolate companies have continued to exercise considerable control over these intiatives. As a result, the problem of child labor continues nine years after the industry committed to end these abuses. ... |
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Link: Tell Hershey to Have a Heart for Workers
- 2.11.2010 Nine years after major chocolate companies committed to ending labor rights abuses in the production of cocoa, child labor, forced labor and trafficking continue on cocoa farms in West Africa. Hershey is one of the largest chocolate companies in the US and it has not agreed to institute any certification programs to ensure that these labor rights abuses do not occur in the production of the cocoa it uses. Here in the US, Hershey has been shifting production away from unionized facilities. Recently, a worker died at a Hershey supplier in Pennsylvania due to unsafe conditions and a lack of appropriate training. Given all of these labor problems, please join us this Valentine's Day in asking Hershey a simple question: How does Hershey monitor its global supply chain to ensure that worker rights are protected? ... |
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Link: Theo Chocolate Founder, CEO Joe Whinney on Fair Tr
- 2.10.2010 A Democracy Now! radio interview with Joe Whinney, founder and CEO of Theo Chocolate, which describes itself as the only roaster of organic cocoa beans and the first roaster of Fair Trade certified cocoa beans in the United States. ... |
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Link: Fact Sheet: Fairtrade and Child Protection
- 2.10.2010 Report issued by FLO on what the labeling organization is doing to help fight the root causes of the worst forms of child labour and forced labour ... |
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Link: Cocoa Action Kit
- 2.9.2010 This action kit will provide you with more information about child labor in the cocoa industry and ideas for how to take action! ... |
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Link: Bitter and Sweet Chocolate Company Scorecard
- 2.9.2010 Equal Exchange was rated among the sweetest of all chocolate companies. It is one of the most committed companies to sustainability and improving the livelihoods of cocoa farmers globally. ... |
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