WASHINGTON -- International chocolate makers and Democratic members of Congress on Monday announced a four-year plan to end use of child slave labor by cocoa growers and to certify cocoa that is grown ...

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

YouTube star MrBeast says that he doesn’t want to be remembered for his internet fame, but for his work helping to end child slavery in the cocoa industry. Jimmy ‘MrBeast‘ Donaldson launched his line ...

Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union is supporting the establishment of school-based child labour clubs to help eliminate the growing trend of child labour in cocoa growing communities in the ...

Photo: Chad Zuber/iStockphoto.com. The path of a cocoa bean from a West African plantation to the chocolate bars we consume is a convoluted one, with many key stages along the way hidden in the ...

Ivory Coast and Ghana are cancelling all cocoa sustainability schemes that U.S.-based Hershey runs in their countries, accusing the chocolatemaker of trying to avoid paying a cocoa premium aimed at ...

Ivory Coast has raised the fixed farmgate price paid to cocoa farmers more than 21% to 1,000 CFA Francs ($1.80) per kg for the main crop of the 2020/2021 season starting Thursday, President Alassane ...