By Lindsey Partos
Herculean efforts are required by the global chocolate industry to ensure that sourced cocoa supplies are not linked to exploited or trafficked child labour, underlines labour watchdog International Labor Rights Forum.
Claiming the industry has failed to provide consumers with "a reasonable assurance" as to the origins of their chocolate, ILRF has articulated a clutch of basic principles that reflect current demand from consumers.
"Consumers should reward companies with ethical integrity in their supply chains and continue to demand that worlds largest chocolate companies answer the question of how consumers can be assured their chocolate is not produced using exploited child labour," says Tim Newman from ILRF's campaigns department...