February 28, 2008 The Progress Report
	What is Earth-friendly Chocolate? -- People who moan over chocolate and those who cultivate the bush often live worlds apart.
February 15, 2008 Fortune
	Chocolate's bittersweet economy -- Seven years after the industry agreed to abolish child labor, little progress has been made.
February 14, 2008 Democracy Now!
	Theo Chocolate Founder, CEO Joe Whinney on Fair Trade Cocoa -- ...Global Exchange is sending the CEOs of major chocolate companies bouquets of Fair Trade certified flowers with a note attached calling on them to make a real commitment to ending child labor on cocoa farms in West Africa.
February 14, 2008 expatica.com
	Valentine's Day chocolates - product of slave labour? -- Child slaves on the farm face appalling working conditions with 12 to 14 hours of severe manual labour, cutting down cocoa pods using big knives or machetes, thereby risking severe injuries which can often maim them permanently, Global Exchange, a fair trade organisation said. Some are also killed and many are beaten or abused.
February 08, 2008 petergreenberg.com [Chocolate]
	The Sweetest Chocolate Tours: Good for the Body and Soul -- Through Global Exchange, you can participate in their National Valentine’s Day of Action by contacting at least five teachers in hopes of generating more awareness about Fair Trade initiatives among our nation’s youth.
February 02, 2008 The Progress Report
	What is Earth-friendly Chocolate? -- People who moan over chocolate and those who cultivate the bush often live worlds apart.
December 12, 2007 The New York Times
	So Little Time, So Many Charities to Feed -- Global Exchange, a human rights organization, operates a fair trade store online with things like coffee and chocolate made by producers who are making a decent wage.
November 11, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle
	Ivory Coast conflict exposes the darker side of chocolate -- ...Ivorian cocoa also is tagged to darker images: child labor, corruption and accusations that it has fueled a low level war that began in 2002 and split the country into a rebel-held north and a government-controlled south.
September 18, 2006 The New Paltz Oracle
	Jazzman’s New Environmentally Conscious Coffee Doesn’t Cut It -- Students express disappointment of on campus Jazzman Cafe's sourcing of low-bar certification coffee provider Rain Forest Alliance.
September 17, 2006 The Jamaica Observer
	Gov't Supports Move to Get Banana Farmers Fair Trade Certified -- MINISTER of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Errol Ennis has said that the government strongly supports the move by the Banana Export Company (BECO) to get local banana exporters fair trade certified, and has urged farmers to buy into the process.
April 02, 2006 The Patriot-News [Chocolate]
	'Transparency' sought about cocoa suppliers -- The Hershey Trust Co., a nonprofit dedicated to housing and educating disadvantaged children, will be asked this month to act on a proposal that proponents think can help protect vulnerable children working on cocoa farms. The trust company is being put in that position because it has a controlling interest in The Hershey Co. A human-rights group wants The Hershey Co. to issue a public report on its African cocoa suppliers.
December 12, 2005 Persectives (the OneWorld US Online Magazine)
	Fair Trade & Our Buying Choices -- Global trade takes center stage this month as financial leaders will make decisions that impact us all at the Word Trade Organization’s highest-level meeting in Hong Kong. The developing world will argue that today’s “free” trade system disadvantages small farmers struggling to survive. In addition to attempts to reform this system, a global pocketbook revolution has been underway for years to make trade fair. Find out how your buying choices can make a difference this holiday season.
November 02, 2005 E Magazine [Chocolate]
	Chocolate’s Dark Side -- What do coffee and chocolate have in common besides caffeine, some reputed health benefits and a desirable flavor? They are both popular in developed countries but grown largely in the developing world.
November 02, 2005 E Magazine
	Grounds for Change -- To most casual browsers, coffee has as much to do with songbirds as chalk does to cheese, but a growing movement centering on coffee’s many political dimensions is beginning, like the caffeine in the cup, to wake up a disinterested public.
October 31, 2005 Brown Daily Herald [Chocolate]
	My Fair Chocolate -- Trevor Stutz '07, Jenn Baumstein '08 and Hope Turner '08 indulge in fair trade chocolate products Sunday night in the Hourglass Café as part of an Oxfam effort to raise campus awareness about fair trade. In return for free chocolate, the organization asked students to sign a petition asking Nestle to use chocolate produced under fair trade conditions.
October 31, 2005 Dissident Voice [Chocolate]
	Chocolate, Unchained -- In the new film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka -- played by a sleek Johnny Depp -- is a factory boss in search of exotic sweets, able to pluck plants or animals from other lands at whim... A skim of on-line film reviews indicates little interest, let alone dismay, in the message that living “exotics” -- including humans -- are mere corporate resources. Likewise, few people notice that today's wealthiest chocolatiers rely on slavery to keep them in the lifestyle to which they're accustomed.
October 28, 2005 WireTap [Chocolate]
	The Dark Side of Chocolate -- This Halloween, know where your chocolate comes from. Here's your guide to ensuring that your treats weren't produced by enslaved children.
October 27, 2005 Associated Press [Coffee]
	McDonald's to Start Selling Organic Coffee -- McDonald's Corp. will begin selling organic coffee at its New England restaurants next month, an arrangement that could propel growth for the Vermont-based roaster and help the fast-food chain compete for customers who avoid the Golden Arches in favor of a better cup of joe.
October 24, 2005 Atlanta Journal Constitution [Chocolate]
	Taste for chocolate is gone -- I love chocolate as much as anyone. In moderation, chocolate is good for your body and soul. But I have a nightmare that this Halloween one of my daughters is going to pull a piece of chocolate out of her candy bag and ask, "Daddy, is it true that child slaves made this chocolate?"
October 24, 2005 Global Exchange
	Human Rights Group Submits Shareholder Resolution to Hershey, Requesting Report on the Company’s Cocoa Supply -- San Francisco, CA – On Monday, October 24, San Francisco-based human rights group Global Exchange submitted a shareholders resolution to be considered at the Hershey Company’s annual general meeting. The resolution calls on Hershey’s management to report to shareholders on all the company’s cocoa supply sources and aims to determine whether Hershey is purchasing cocoa from Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, and Nestle, all of which are being sued for purchasing cocoa from farms that use forced labor.
October 12, 2005 Common Dreams
	2005 Fair Trade Futures Conference Brings 700 to Chicago to Promote 'Living a Fair Trade Life' -- More than 700 business leaders and individuals from 20 countries took part in the 2005 "Fair Trade Futures Conference" Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in Chicago. The event, at the start of National Fair Trade month, featured 50 workshops, testimonials from producers, and interactive opportunities to showcase and shape the future of Fair Trade in North America.
October 07, 2005 Common Dreams
	Fair Trade Coffee Pioneer Questions Nestlé's Entry into Market: -- Equal Exchange, Inc., who began importing and marketing fairly traded coffee from small farmers in 1986, expressed grave doubts about the entry of the Nestlé Corporation into the Fair Trade system, as announced earlier today. Equal Exchange co-founder and co-director Rink Dickinson said "Fair Trade to us means open and honest relationships with producers and with consumers. Nestlé has failed on both fronts for decades."
October 07, 2005 BBC News
	Nestle launches fair trade coffee -- Nestle has launched a fair trade instant coffee as it looks to tap into growing demand among consumers. The firm is the first of the four major global coffee firms - the others are Kraft, Sara Lee, and Procter & Gamble - to put out such a product in the UK.
July 20, 2005 Glendale News Press [Chocolate]
	Labor group sues Nestle -- Nestlé U.S.A. is one of three cocoa industry companies being sued by labor rights groups on behalf of former child laborers, who allege that the companies knowingly abetted in the torture and forced labor of children as young as 14.
July 20, 2005 The Villager [Chocolate]
	The dark story behind ‘Wonka;’ child labor and the cocoa industry -- On Fri., July 15, the remake of “Willie Wonka” opened in theaters around town. “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory” was the perfect opportunity for East Village activist Ilene Richman to call attention to the plight of child labor.
July 16, 2005 Reuters [Chocolate]
	U.S. companies sued in Calif. over child labor claims -- A human rights group has sued three U.S. companies in federal court in Los Angeles to force them to step up efforts to end child labor on African farms that supply cocoa beans used to make chocolate products.
July 16, 2005 Reuters [Chocolate]
	U.S. companies sued in Calif. over child labor claims -- A human rights group has sued three U.S. companies in federal court in Los Angeles to force them to step up efforts to end child labor on African farms that supply cocoa beans used to make chocolate products.
July 14, 2005 International Labor Rights Fund [Chocolate]
	HUMAN RIGHTS WATCHDOG SUES NESTLE, ADM, CARGILL FOR USING FORCED CHILD LABOR -- A leading human rights organization sued the Nestle, Archer Daniels Midland, and Cargill companies today in Federal District Court in Los Angeles for involvement in the trafficking, torture, and forced labor of children who cultivate and harvest cocoa beans which the companies import from Africa. The suit was brought under two federal statutes, the Torture Victims Protection Act and the Alien Tort Claims Act
July 04, 2005 Voice of America [Chocolate]
	Ivory Coast's Child Workers Suffer Despite US Legislation -- In 2001, two American congressmen set up legislation pushing for a cocoa certification program designed to protect the thousands of children working in the sector. Four-years later, little has changed for the working children of Ivory Coast. Joe Bavier visited a plantation near Agboville in southeast Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa exporter and has this report for VOA.
June 30, 2005 Op-Ed News [Chocolate]
	Did Child Slaves Harvest Your Latest Chocolate Treat? -- Slavery has a long history in Africa, but tragically, it also has a present. Five years ago, the BBC documented child slavery on Cote d’Ivoire cocoa farms, causing a public relations nightmare for the chocolate industry. Cote d’Ivoire farms produce nearly half the world’s cocoa, most of which is used by major corporations like Hershey, M&M/Mars, and Nestle.

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