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NEW EVIDENCE OF CHILD SLAVERY IN PRODUCTION OF VALENTINE’S DAY CHOCOLATES

Former Child Slaves on Cocoa Plantations in West Africa Implicate Nestle, Cargill, ADM

Award-winning Filmmaker/Photographer Returns from Ivory Coast with Film and Photographs

By Maggie Reid

Three international workers discussed the alleged human rights abuses in Wal-Mart's sweatshops and their hopes for change and restitution at a Pierson College Master's Tea on Friday.

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Chocolate makers are trying to replicate the success of Fair Trade coffee by coming up with a system to tell consumers that their chocolate has been produced ethically. Jeff Tyler has the story.

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By Natalia Munoz

HADLEY - Damaris Meza Guillen held a pair of Faded Glory jeans like the ones she sews together at a Nicaraguan factory that supplies Wal-Mart. She said she would have to work a week to buy the jeans - even at Wal-Mart's prices - because she is paid only 39 cents an hour.