CHOCOLATE CAMPAIGN - Our Aims
The truth behind your tasty treats
Over a third of the world's chocolate comes from Cote D'Ivoire, Africa. It's highly likely that your favourite chocolate bar comes from here.
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 ICI (International Cocoa Initiative) was set up as part of the Harkin –Engel Protocol to combat trafficking in the chocolate industry.
Although small scale community projects have been set up, the ICI actually promised to eradicate the worst forms of child labour including trafficking, by 2005.
- They missed the deadline.
- They then extended the deadline to 2008
- It's now 2009 and we are still waiting.
We want the chocolate industry to live up to its promises and give us traffik free chocolate.
Read more
The chocolate industries broken promises
The new CHOCOLATE COMMITMENT that we want the industry to sign up to
Campaign successes – what we've achieved so far