By Hanna Claeson

The New York Times says that
“survivors [of the factory collapse] described a sensation akin to being in an
earthquake: hearing a loud and terrifying cracking sound; feeling the concrete
factory floor roll beneath their feet; and watching concrete beams and pillars
collapse as the eight-story building suddenly seemed to implode.”[1]

By International Labor Rights Forum

Today, ILRF brought a survivor of the Tazreen fire and a Bangladeshi labor rights leader to meet with Rep. George Miller in Washington, DC. Here's what Rep. Miller said following the meeting: 

By Lynda Yanz, Maquila Solidarity Network

First, a look at the funds designated to fight child labor in cocoa. Programs and initiatives that are considered part of the industry commitment must be approved by the CLCCG and must be in line with the Framework of Action, which the companies signed in 2010 (see the table below).

Hershey, the largest chocolate maker in the United States, rakes in over $5 billion in revenue every year. Barry Callebaut is one of the largest suppliers of chocolate in the world. As two of the biggest chocolate companies in the world, Barry Callebaut and Hershey are just as responsible as their counterparts for the atrocious condition of the cocoa industry. And yet, both have been miserly when it comes to the fight to remove children from the cocoa fields of West Africa.