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Article

1 Oct 2010

Author:
Tim Newman, Change.org

New Evidence of Trafficking, Child, Forced Labor in Cocoa

[The fourth annual] report [by the Payson Center for International Development at Tulane University] identifies the ongoing exploitation of labor rights in the cocoa sector including the worst forms of child labor, forced labor and trafficking...The...report also analyzes the progress made by the cocoa industry on each aspect of the Harkin-Engel Protocol and found that overall there was an uneven and incomplete implementation of the agreement. The...report notes that almost all major chocolate companies are shifting toward certified cocoa and encourages this development, but Hershey is lagging behind competitors in this area.