CHOCOLATE CAMPAIGN - Our Aims
The truth behind your tasty treats
Over a third of the cocoa that makes the world's chocolate comes from Ivory Coast, Africa. It's highly likely that the beans that made your favourite chocolate bar come from there.
Thousands of children - from within the Cote D'Ivoire and neighbouring countries – who pick and harvest these beans have been trafficked. They have had their
freedom taken away from them and are forced to work long hours on the cocoa plantations without receiving any money for their work.
The problem exposed
In 2001 the chocolate industry signed up to put an end to the trafficking in the supply chain of chocolate by 2005.
Although small scale community projects have been set up, and there are more traffik free chocolate bars on our shelves …
- They missed the deadline.
- They then extended the deadline to 2008.
- It's now 2011 and we are still waiting.
Because of our campaigning there are more traffik free bars on our shelves. But it’s not enough. We want the chocolate industry to live up to its promises and give us traffik free chocolate.
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Campaign successes – what we've achieved so far