Tag: Slavery

Chocolate And Slavery: How Your Child’s Trick-Or-Treat Bag Relies On Child Slaves In Africa

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Chocolate And Slavery: How Your Child’s Trick-Or-Treat Bag Relies On Child Slaves In Africa
Tricks And No Treats For The Child Slaves Of The Cocoa Fields In West Africa: Avoiding The Exploiters Halloween may seem like a great time for kids, with the costumes and of course the candy. But it isn’t fun and games for all children. Some children get to dress up as their favorite character and go door-to-door collecting free candy; some children toil in cocoa groves in the brutal heat of the Ivory Coast, subject to beatings and having food withheld, with no hope of release.… Read the rest

US Supreme Court: “Lawsuit Against Nestle, ADM, Cargill by Former Child Slaves in Mali Cacao Operations to Proceed”

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US Supreme Court: “Lawsuit Against Nestle, ADM, Cargill by Former Child Slaves in Mali Cacao Operations to Proceed”
“The U.S. Supreme Court draws the line at child slavery,” as the website Legal Reader put it so succinctly. “Like most slavery operations, cocoa slavery victims are drawn from nearby poor countries with false advertising promising a good job and enough income to send money home. The slaves are boys who, like all slaves, are immediately “broken”–broken physically and mentally—to make them docile. Boys who are rebellious or are caught trying to escape tend to disappear.”