Until the industry pays a fair price and governments enforce real accountability, every bar of chocolate remains an unpaid ...

Mars, the chocolate giant that makes M&Ms and Snickers, uses cocoa that is harvested by children as young as five years old in Ghana, according to a bombshell report. An unidentified whistleblower ...

Major chocolate companies such as Godiva, Lindt and Hershey are failing to keep child labor out of their supply chains, according to a new ranking by activists released on Thursday. Godiva was rated ...

Colorado (KCNC) — This Juneteenth, a Colorado company is calling attention to the continued use of child and slave labor in the production of chocolate. The owners of Bibamba Chocolate at Edgewater ...

Activists 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 Superior ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Forget to buy chocolates for your valentine? Now you can say you're in step with lawmakers shunning the treat because of child slavery on West African cocoa farms. Sen. Tom Harkin, ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a proposed class action by eight Malian citizens who sought to hold Hershey HSY.N, Nestle NESN.S and five other companies liable for child labor on Ivory ...

10-year-old D.P., a plaintiff in a class action against candy giants Mars, Mondelēz and Cargill, seen using a machete to open cocoa pods on a cocoa plantation in Ghana, where he began working when he ...

Child labor protections in America are being challenged at the state level and, in some cases, reversed in ways we haven’t seen in decades. In 2022 and 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New ...