Chocolate companies are among the defendants named in a lawsuit brought by former child workers in Ivory Coast
Seven major cocoa companies ‘should have known’ about alleged child labour in their supply chains, court papers argue
The companies had been sued by a group of six adult citizens of Mali that claimed they were taken from their country as children and forced
Mars, Nestle, Hershey, Mondelez, and Cargill enslave children for their chocolate production. The Supreme Court protected them 8-1 in June 2021.












