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Eight children have launched a lawsuit against several of the world’s biggest chocolate companies, accusing brands such as Nestlé, Hershey, and Mars of profiting from slave labor used on Ivory Coast cocoa plantations.
Tony s said it was removed from Slave Free Chocolate list a few months ago
Tony s Chocolonely, the Netherlands-based firm making confectionery from ethically-sourced cocoa, has responded to the company s removal from the Slave Free Chocolate list because of its links to ingredients supplier Barry Callebaut.
Barry Callebaut is among seven confectionery and ingredients giants facing a lawsuit over alleged child labour infringements filed last Friday (12 February) by the Washington DC-based human rights organisation International Rights Advocates on behalf of eight former cocoa plantation workers in the west African country of Cote D Ivoire, who claim they were forced to work without pay when they were still children.