Chocolate companies Mars, Nestlé, and Hershey sued for child slavery
The well-known multinational chocolate companies Mars, Nestlé, and Hershey, among others, were sued in the United States by eight young people who as children were exploited as slaves on African cocoa plantations.
These young men represent the thousands of children who are recruited each year by trickery and deception, and then trafficked to cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast, The Guardian reported on Feb. 12.
Child slavery in Africa
There they were forced to work for years without pay, without travel documents, and without knowing where they were or how to return home.
The lawsuit was filed in Washington D.C. by the human rights firm International Rights Advocates (IRA), a first in the United States.
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