Tell Hershey, Mars & Nestle to Stop Child Labor!
**In order to participate, you must go to this website and send your e-mail to Hershey, Mars & Nestle!**
As people across the country celebrate Valentine's Day, child and trafficked labor continues on cocoa farms in West Africa. Today, the International Labor Rights Forum released a brand new chocolate company scorecard ranking companies based on their commitment to ending child labor and ensuring transparency in their supply chains. Check it out here!
Three companies stood out as the most "bitter" when it came to worker rights: Hershey, M&M/Mars and Nestle. Since 2001, we have heard the same talking points from major chocolate companies about what they are doing about child labor, but the practice still continues. Please join us today in getting beyond the talking points and asking Hershey, M&M/Mars and Nestle what each company is doing specifically to ensure they are respecting internationally recognized labor rights in their cocoa sourcing.
CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/chocolate
This is an ongoing pledge that should be fulfilled as often as possible between Feb 12, 2009 and Feb 14, 2010.
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Thomas Tobin Jr @ 01:56AM PT Nov 18
I want to support a decent living wage for cocoa farmers and a childhood of happiness and learning for their children. I am aware of the chocolate industry's measures to eliminate child labor, and they are not working. Please buy fair trade cocoa.
Just *C* Mosheim, TN @ 02:45PM PT Nov 02
Pledge fulfilled Nov 02!
You have already participated in this advocacy campaign.
Betsy Seeton @ 08:40PM PT Jun 16
Check out my website for that answer: livehonestly.com
Luz Nagle @ 01:42PM PT May 07
We have to stop victimizing others in the name of profits. Children need to be children and corporations must respect their rights. We consumers must demand corporate responsibility and be aware of our complicity if we purchase their products.
una hassan @ 03:37PM PT Apr 21
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT OUR KIDS NOT SELL THEM TO JUST ANYONE FOR ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM IF WE DON'T LOOK OUT FOR THEM
Mary Rust @ 11:50AM PT Mar 15
How can we adults turn our backs on the abhorrent practice of using child labor to produce Hershey, Mars and Nestle products. I will not buy any of these products and will tell others what I am doing and why -- until and unless these corporations stop exploiting children to make their enterprises more profitable.
Shame on these companies!!!!
Maryal Boumann @ 09:12PM PT Mar 10
As adults it is our responsibility to speak up for the innocent little ones who are thrown into a world of hard labor, foregoing the simple joy and laughter of childhood. They should be careFREE, not destined to a life of slavery! IF children WANT to work to help support their family, they should be payed fair wages with limited daily hours (2-3 max) with a maximum of 4 days a week. The environment should be safe, healthy, and uplifting with food and beverages provided and schooling required. That way if parents want their kids to work they would also be 'forced' to get an education! May the owners and Board of Directors of these companies get their eyes and hearts off the love of money (greed) and on to the precious children's lives....amen!
melanie yaya @ 06:04PM PT Mar 10
Because every child is a seed of our future....so what does this say when companies knowingly steal the future from
coulntless children and from me and my children. What would they have been if they were given a hand up instead of slavery which
aborts their dreams, desires and potential. It hurts us all, there is no pleasure in that!
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