The Cost of Cheap Chocolate
Despite years of pressure on Hershey’s, Nestlé, and other chocolate heavyweights, thousands of kids under 14 are still doing the tough work of harvesting cocoa beans.
The Spooky Side of Chocolate
There’s nothing sweet about child labor.
Trick or Mistreat
Big Chocolate uses forced labor in West Africa and feeds obesity and diabetes in the United States.
Food of the Gods
The politics and socioeconomics of chocolate and why it is still a guilty pleasure.
Film: The Dark Side of Chocolate
Join Tiffany Williams, Advocacy Director for IPS’ Break the Chain Campaign and Emira Woods, Co-Director of IPS’ Foreign Policy In Focus project as we present a screening of The Dark Side of Chocolate, a documentary film by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano about the continued allegations of trafficking of children and child labor in the international cocoa industry.
Big Chocolate’s Child Slavery Addiction
This Halloween, try to ensure that your chocolate isn’t tainted.
Chocolate: Bitter or Sweet?
World Day Against Child Labor is this Saturday, June 12. Take a stand and demonstrate that children cannot continue to suffer while the world remains silent.
Bitter Chocolate
Let’s sweeten it for everyone by helping stamp out child slavery and other abusive labor conditions.