Cocoa traders need to act to stop child slavery

Anti-Slavery's chocolate campaign is continuing to step up action from the cocoa industry to end child slavery in Ivory Coast.

Their recent research on child slavery in the cocoa sector of Ivory Coast, which produces around 40% of the world's supply, found that trafficking continues to blight the country, with children from neighbouring Mali and Burkina Faso forced to work without pay on cocoa farms. They also found that despite their vast profits from exporting the crop, multinational cocoa traders were doing very little to end slavery in their supply chains.

Cocoa traders have long avoided the public gaze because their role as a ‘middleman' is seen as removed from the choices of consumers. Anti-Slavery International strongly believes that in order to eradicate child slavery from the sector, these traders, responsible for buying Ivory Coast's cocoa supply and selling it to western chocolate manufacturers, must finally feel the power of public pressure.

This is why they need your action to target cocoa traders - Cargill, ADM and Barry Callebaut - and tell them they must increase their efforts to end child slavery in the industry. Take action by clicking here.

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