[ [link removed] ]A pair of hands holding cocoa beans.
John,
Tenimba was just 11 when a trafficker lured him from his home in Mali to a
cocoa plantation in Ivory Coast. He was promised good pay and care.
Instead he worked every day for two years with no pay, no medical care,
and no safety measures.
Today there are over 1.5 million child laborers like Tenimba, losing their
childhood to supply cocoa to some of the world’s wealthiest brands, like
Nestlé, Mars, and Hershey.
But Tenimba and 7 other former child slaves are fighting for justice, and
have just brought a new lawsuit against these chocolate giants, hoping to
get justice for themselves and hundreds of thousands of others.
They’re up against the most expensive lawyers money can buy -- and they’re
asking for your help. Will you help fund their lawsuit and save these
children from slavery?
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Nestlé, Mars, and Hershey know all about their child slavery problem.
They’ve been promising to end it since 2001. Yet with each deadline that
passes, they kick the can down the road, all while hundreds of thousands
of kids are forced to trade their youth to provide these giants with cocoa
-- and billions in profits.
This lawsuit could change things — it’s a class action, which means more
child laborers could join in and sue for reparations. Mounting costs and
reputation damage could finally break these chocolate giants, forcing them
to actually, at long last, address the problem.
This is a true David vs. Goliath story -- former child slaves against the
giant international corporations that profited from their exploitation.
We’ve funded their battle before -- helping them make it all the way to
the Supreme Court. But they need us again -- and this time we can prevail.
Will you chip in to help them win this fight and get justice for all of
Big Chocolate’s child laborers? Every extra penny we raise will fuel our
campaigning to end human rights abuses in supply chains around the world.
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Thanks for all that you do,
Fatah and the SumOfUs team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Nestle, Cargill, Mars, Hershey, Mondelez, Olam and Barry Callebaut
Respond to New Cocoa Slavery Case With Blatant, Objectively Verifiable
Lies, International Rights Advocates, 8 August 2021
[ [link removed] ]Press Release: Child Slaves Who Were Trafficked and Forced to Harvest
Cocoa in Cote D’Ivoire Sue the Cocoa Companies that Enslaved Them: Nestle,
Cargill, Mars, Mondelēz, Hershey, Barry Callebaut, and Olam, International
Rights Advocates, 12 February 2021
[ [link removed] ]Department of Labor Study on Child Labor, International Rights
Advocates, 12 April 2020
[ [link removed] ]Nestlé & Cargill v. Doe Series: Meet the “John Does” – the Children
Enslaved in Nestlé & Cargill’s Supply Chain, Just Security, 21 December
2020
[ [link removed] ]Cocoa’s child laborers, The Washington Post, 5 June 2019
[ [link removed] ]Mars, Nestlé and Hershey to face child slavery lawsuit in US, The
Guardian, 12 February 2021
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