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Child labour and cocoa: Raw materials, raw issues and progress
Deborah Leipziger considers a multi-stakeholder scheme – the International Cocoa Initiative – and its efforts to eliminate child labour from cocoa production...Its members include Mars, Hershey Foods, Nestlé and Cadbury-Schweppes...These companies partner with the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF), the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and non-governmental organisations including Free the Slaves, Global March and the Consumer’s League.