Hold Mars, Nestlé, and Hershey Accountable for Child Labor in the Ivory Coast
Two decades ago, three major chocolate companies pledged to stop using cocoa harvested by children. They broke their promise.
Missing Persons' Families Support Centre
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History
Missing Persons' Families Support Centre (MPFSC) is a non-governmental association, established in 1996 by relatives and parents of missing people. The main reason to unite was dissatisfaction with tardy search for missing people in Lithuania and strong will to change this situation.
- Contact Information:
- Grunwald g. 133, LT-08217
- Vilnius,
- Lithuania
- Active In: Lithuania
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness
- Forms of Slavery:
- Sex Trafficking, Child Labor
- Tel: 8 (5) 248 33 73
- Email: centras@missing.lt
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The "Chocolate Slaves" of the Ivory Coast
Cocoa is the main ingredient found in chocolate. A large percentage of the world's cocoa comes from the Ivory Coast in West Africa. Many times, forced labor and child labor are used to harvest cocoa beans. Learn more at the Insights Lecture Series at the Cincinnati Museum Center on October 4th, 2018.
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