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HORAY! KRAFT FOODS COMMITS TO RAINFOREST ALLIANCE RANGES!
HOORAY! KRAFT FOODS COMMITS TO RAINFOREST ALLIANCE RANGES! Yes – that’s right, Kraft have committed to traffik free ranges by 2012! Kraft plan to increase current purchases of cocoa beans from...
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Happy Christmas Nestle ….. ho ho ho, ha!
This Christmas, people around the world will be feasting on scrumptious chocolate made up of luxurious ingredients like exploitation, abuse and violence. Doesn’t seem right, does it? Together we have...
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Chocolate-The Bitter Truth, Our Response
STOP THE TRAFFIK celebrates the fact that journalists and filmmakers around the world are investigating the crime of trafficking of children onto cocoa plantations in West Africa. All cocoa needs to be...
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5. What if…?
…the local newsagent owner knew that the cocoa in the chocolate bars he sells came from the labour of trafficked African boys, sold into slavery, whipped and never allowed to escape?
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7. What if…?
…a teacher realised the boy in her class had been trafficked into the country for benefit fraud? …a landlord realised their property was being used as a cannabis farm, and the Vietnamese teenager...
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RUNNING…OUT OF STYLE, FOR FREEDOM!
Hi everyone! We’ve just gone LIVE with our BRAND NEW website FREEDOM TICKET FOR LIFE! Here we are in the office looking a bit silly but in high spirits for the launch! The project focuses on providing...
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PRICE OF FREEDOM- Giving a Helping hand to Traffickers?
Looking through some old postcards, I came across some I had bought at the Nelson Mandela Touch Gallery when I visited Sydney, Australia. There’s someone who has truly touched the world! You’re...
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Cocoa Journalists in the Ivory Coast locked up
The latest news coming out of the Ivory Coast suggests its not just victims trafficked into chocolate production whose freedom is at stake. Even the reporters trying to highlight things in the cocoa...
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Deadly weapon-humble bar
Today I’d like to summarise some of a great speech by Thomas Horton of Oasis Academy Immingham. I found it inspirational and hope you do to. Here goes: “Chemical. Nuclear. Biological. These are all...
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Reverse Trick or Treating
Halloween 2010 is just around the corner, are that means you can participate in the Fourth Annual Reverse Trick-or-Treating! This year, make an even bigger difference for cocoa growing communities....
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Exploitation of labor rights in Chocolate production is ongoing
The worst forms of child labor, forced labor and trafficking of children have not been eradicated yet, on the contrary, a newly released study gives real evidence about the widespread practices and...
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Bitter Sweet update on Chocolate…
Hey Everyone! Here’s an update on what’s currently happening in Europe around the chocolate industry, thanks to Antoinie, STOP THE TRAFFIK Netherlands: Last week Thursday, Tulane University published...
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It’s time to raise the bar Nestlé!
Dearest loveliest blog readers! I write with exciting news…… well exciting for us, annoying for Nestlé As I am sure you’re aware, over the last few years we have been working together to pressurize the...
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Noel Nestlé
Are you counting down to Christmas yet? You’re not the only one counting down… http://stopthetraffik-news.org/D5L-BISF-931KM19A61/cr.aspx
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Red light freedom run – photo montage
3 days out of 6 Check out this little photo montage of the boys. Days 1-3 of red light run. Kings Cross – Amsterdam – Hook of Holland – Harwich – Colchester. They’ve just completed day 4 and arrived in...
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mmmmMars bars in Australia!
Last week (Monday 28th February 2011) MARS in Australia announced their lovely MARS bars in Australia will carry the Rainforest Alliance logo as of June 2011. This followed a campaign where STOP THE...
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The Nestlé slogan hunt is on!
Our Valentine’s Day campaign asking Nestle to ‘Have a Heart’ was a great success thanks to your help! Now, Mr. Cocoa Bean is hunting for a short campaign slogan to demand Nestlé hops on board this...
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Chocolatey Friday treat!
In response to our hunt for an Easter campaign slogan, one of our activist sent us a great story she wrote and it was just to good to keep to ourselves! It was After Eight on CaramacDonald’s Farm and...
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Bloody cocoa in Cote d’Ivoire
People have been asking me what our take is on what’s going on in Cote d’Ivoire at the moment. Is the unrest there affecting the trafficking of kids onto the plantations? What is our response? I...
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Confused by the price of chocolate
Today dear readers, I am a little confused. For the last few months, we have been following news coming form the Ivory Coast very closely and something occurred to me over the weekend. When...
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Traffik-free chocolate where you live
Today is World Day Against Child Labour, sponsored by the International Labour Organization. For a couple of years now activists around the world have been campaigning hard to get the chocolate...
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Nestlé, Wish you were here!
Where are you headed on holiday over the next few months? If you are headed to Australia you’re in chocolaty luck because you’ll be able to find traffik-free 4 finger Kit Kat bars and by the end of...
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Dr Kraft and Mr Mondelēz?
ATTENTION SHOPPERS… The name Kraft that you know so well from being stamped on all kinds of popular foodstuffs, from Dairylea cheese to Dairy Milk chocolate, has decided to do some shape shifting. The...
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Christmas Message from Ruth Dearnley, STOP THE TRAFFIK CEO
Christmas Message from Ruth Dearnley, STOP THE TRAFFIK CEO Dear friends A GIFT BOX ISN’T JUST FOR CHRISTMAS There’s so much to tell you and thank you for what you have helped us achieve through your...
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Choose certified chocolate & campaign for change this Fairtrade Fortnight
Flicking through the Metro this week, I‘ve noticed sprawling two page adverts for Nestle’s two-finger Kit Kat, proudly announcing it’s new status as Fairtrade certified. This is a great step for our...
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#1 – The Argument for Ethical Consumption
Recession-hit, saddled with student debt and no hope in hell of a job, the last thing on the mind of a young graduate such as myself might be spending a bit extra to help an unknown, unseen cocoa...
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The six steps to traffik-free Chocolate
FOCUS ON: CHOCOLATE #1 At STOP THE TRAFFIK we love chocolate and hate injustice, and that is why we have been campaigning for traffik-free chocolate since 2006. But what does traffik-free mean and how...
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ARE MONDELĒZ FEELING THE PRESSURE?
Imminent to the delivery of 40,000 postcards from the STOP THE TRAFFIK UK and Australia and a social media thunderclap of over 500 supporters on Anti-Slavery Day Mondelēz have made an announcement…...
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It’s good to talk: An update on our meeting with Mondelēz International
This spring thousands of STOP THE TRAFFIK activists around the world showed the world’s largest chocolate company just how passionately they feel about ending child trafficking in the cocoa supply...
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GIFT Box update from Glasgow
When you volunteer to go out onto the streets of Glasgow you have to brace yourself for the unexpected. Whilst you know you can always rely on the Glasgow patter, you don’t expect such unrelenting,...
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