Les États-Unis pèsent sur le plan visant à bloquer les importations de cacao résultant du travail des enfants. La Côte d’Ivoire appelle l’interdiction injuste. La première dame du pays a rencontré …
Empty Promises: The Failure of Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives to Improve Farmer Incomes in the Ivorian Cocoa Sector
Between October 2018 and March 2019, Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL) staff interviewed farmers, tribal leaders in cocoa-growing villages, cocoa cooperatives and local and international NGOs to assess the impact of …
Zimbabwe Independent Legislator Takes on Chinese Companies for Worker Abuse
“A Zimbabwean legislator is taking on Chinese companies that he says aren’t adhering to local laws and are abusing workers in the African nation. China’s investments in the country should …
Suit alleging US chocolate makers collaborated in slave labor proceeds
A federal appeals court in San Francisco reaffirmed its ruling Friday that youngsters on cocoa plantations in Africa can sue U.S. chocolate makers for allegedly collaborating in slave labor. But …
Doe v Nestle
The panel filed (1) an order amending its opinion, denying a petition for panel rehearing, and denying on behalf of the court a petition for rehearing en banc; and (2) …
Une plainte contre le gouvernement et le parlement béninois à Genève
La confédération syndicale des travailleurs du Bénin (Cstb) sous le leadership de son secrétaire général, Nagnini kassa Mampo, a saisi l’organisation internationale de travail (Oit) à l’effet d’amener le gouvernement …
More than 200 miners stage an underground sit-in to protest against the sexual harassment & victimization of a female worker
“More than 200 employees at Lanxess Chrome mine in Rustenburg have staged an underground sit-in to protest against the sexual harassment and victimisation of a female worker. The National Union …
West African countries plan to hike cocoa prices, citing ‘injustice’ in chocolate industry. Can they reduce child labor?
While the global chocolate industry takes in an estimated $100 billion annually, many of the hundreds of thousands of West African cocoa farmers, who provide most of chocolate’s key ingredient, …
Vendors demand clear informal sector policy
GOVERNMENT and political parties should come up with clear policies on the management of the informal sector as well as strategies to incorporate it into the formal economy, vendors leaders …
Domestic workers: overworked, underpaid and unprotected
Domestic workers wearing colourful coveralls, aprons and head wraps, some carrying mops and brooms, recently gathered at Church Square in Pretoria to highlight their struggles. Founding member of the United …
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