In the blistering heat, CBS News found children in Ghana as young as 5 years old using machetes nearly as big as themselves to harvest the cocoa beans that end up in some of America's most-loved ...

Activists are again accusing Cargill and other major food companies of buying cocoa from West African farms that force children to work in unsafe conditions. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Superior ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Children continue to work in hazardous conditions on farms that supply cocoa to Nestle in Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cocoa producer, but the multinational company is taking ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government and the chocolate industry pledged $17 million on Monday to help end child labor — some of it forced and dangerous — in two African countries where much of the world’s ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The use of child labour on cocoa farms in top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana has risen over the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, according to a draft of a U.S.

The Federal Government is partnering the Lutheran World Relief (LWR) to reduce the global number of child labourers in the cocoa value chain estimated at 1.56 million. The 1.56 million children in ...

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 ...

The General Agricultural Workers’ Union of Ghana (GAWU) has been Mondiaal FNV’s partner for many years. Deputy General Secretary Andrews Addoquaye Tagoe is a familiar face in the fight against child ...

LONDON/ABIDJAN, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The head of Ghana's cocoa regulator on Thursday rejected the findings of studies funded by Western countries that have shown child labour is on the rise in the ...

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 ...