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Statement Regarding the Colombian Attorney General’s Failure to Investigate Drummond’s Financing of the AUC

September 15, 2018
Statement Regarding the Colombian Attorney General’s Failure to Investigate Drummond’s Financing of the AUC

Contact: Terry Collingsworth, Executive Director
tc@iradvocates.org 1-202-543-5911 www.IRAdvocates.org

Press Release 09/17/2018

World Cocoa Foundation Admits, Again, that Member Companies Will Fail to Stop Using Child Slaves to Harvest Cocoa.

In recently published remarks of a July 17, 2018 meeting of the World Cocoa Foundation, an association of multinational cocoa companies, including Nestle, Cargill, Barry Callebaut, Mars and Mondelez, Vice President Tim McCoy admitted that the goal of reducing child slavery in the West Africa Cocoa sector 70% by the year 2020 will not be met. This is a direct admission that these companies are knowingly profiting from child slavery.

News 08/28/2018

From the Bogota Post: Fiscalía: Financing paramilitaries is crime against humanity

https://thebogotapost.com/2017/02/08/fiscalia-financing-paramilitaries-crime-humanity/

News 03/07/2018

John Doe I, et al. v. Nestle USA, Inc., et al.

Former child slaves of Malian origin who were trafficked and forced to work harvesting and/or cultivating cocoa beans on farms in Côte d’Ivoire, which supply cocoa beans to the Defendant companies, filed a complaint on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated former child slaves of Malian origin against Defendants: Nestlé, S.A., Nestlé, U.S.A., and Nestlé Côte d’Ivoire, S.A.; Cargill, Incorporated Cargill Cocoa, and Cargill West Africa, S.A. and Archer Daniels Midland Company for the forced labor and torture they suffered as a result of the wrongful conduct either caused and/or aided and abetted by these corporate entities. Plaintiffs assert claims for child slavery/forced labor, cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment, and torture under the ATS.