ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The use of child labour on cocoa farms in top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana has risen over the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, according to a draft of a U.S.

Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union is supporting the establishment of school-based child labour clubs to help eliminate the growing trend of child labour in cocoa growing communities in the ...

10-year-old D.P., a plaintiff in a class action against candy giants Mars, Mondelēz and Cargill, seen using a machete to open cocoa pods on a cocoa plantation in Ghana, where he began working when he ...

In the blistering heat, CBS News found children in Ghana as young as 5 years old using machetes nearly as big as themselves to harvest the cocoa beans that end up in some of America's most-loved ...

The SOS Children’s Villages Ghana has engaged the Volta Regional Child Protection Committee (RCPC) to share information about its NORAD-funded project and explore areas of collaboration.

A case has been brought against the chocolate industry giant Cargill in the Washington D.C. Superior Court that alleges the company is using exploitative child labor. The case is focused on children ...

We write in advance of the 100th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (the “Committee”) and its review of Ghana. This submission focuses on the rights of children with disabilities, ...

A top Ghanian official has promised action following a CNN report into child slavery on Lake Volta. Around 20,000 children work on the lake, enslaved by fishermen they call "master." Most of them come ...