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US Supreme Court blocks child slavery lawsuit against chocolate firms

by capitalizefinancial
June 18, 2021
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Six African men alleged that they were trafficked from Mali and forced to work on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast. The group say both companies perpetuated that slave trade to keep cocoa prices low. The court ruled 8-1 that the group had no standing because the abuse happened outside the US.

But it stopped short of a definitive ruling on whether the Alien Tort Act – an 18th century law – could be used to hold US companies to account for labour abuses committed in their supply chains abroad. About 70% of the world’s cocoa is produced in West Africa, and much of this is exported to America. It’s estimated that 1.56m children work on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana, according to a report published by the US Department of Labor last year.

In their lawsuit, the group of men alleged that they were forced to work on the cocoa farms for 12-14 hours a day. They also said they were kept under armed guard while they slept, in order to prevent them from escaping, and were paid little beyond basic food. While decrying child slavery, the companies argued the case should instead be made against the traffickers and the farmers who kept them in such conditions.

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