The Dark Side of Asparagus
It’s a funny thing, isn’t it, living in the age of search engines. Today, I was able to pop online and find myself an instantaneous expert on – of all things – asparagus. By contrast, if you’d quizzed me this morning on this rather niche topic, I could have told you two things about it: … Read more
Okay, Nestle. We’ll take a break…
With the announcement that as of 2013, Kit Kat two-finger in the UK and Ireland will join its four-finger sibling in going Fairtrade! It’s busy work, pressuring companies to weed out trafficking in their supply chains. Today, for a moment, we can have a quick break and celebrate; from next year we no longer have … Read more
NESTLE’S PROMISES: NOTHING NEW.
Having failed basic checks on their supply chain, Nestle have announced once again that putting an end to child labour and abuse in the chocolate industry is a top priority. Didn’t they say that 10 years ago?… Watch what our founder, Steve Chalke, has to say about Nestle’s news this weekend
Christmas Chocolate News!
GOOD NEWS just in time for Christmas! Tomorrow the Scottish Parliament will be debating child trafficking in the chocolate industry. The debate is entitled “10 Years on from Harkin-Engel, child trafficking in the chocolate industry” and is to be led by SNP MSP Jim Eadie. You can watch live coverage of the debate here. This … Read more
Nestlé announce more bars will be traffik-free by 2014!
Great news for chocolate lovers around the world… Nestlé have, today, announced a new Cocoa Plan commitment which will see some of its most popular chocolate bars UTZ certified by 2014. Horrar! Here is a break down of Nestlé’s chocolate commitment: Europe: ALL KITKAT bars will be UTZ CERTIFIED by 2014 Australia & New Zealand: … Read more
BBC investigates child trafficking in Ivory Coast
The BBC has been in the Ivory Coast investigating the state of child trafficking on cocoa farms there. Humphrey Hawksley, friend of STOP THE TRAFFIK, reminds us that every day that passes, young boys are still being trafficked, far from home, and that our chocolate is still not TRAFFIK FREE. This is urgent. So on … Read more
Chocolate Industry Admit: “we must do more”…
The chocolate industry has responded to The 10 Campaign by admitting that it “must do more” to reduce child labour and trafficking in its cocoa supply chains. Talking to Max Foster on CNN, Joanna Scott, from the Global Issues Group – a coalition of chocolate and cocoa companies- confessed that “we have to accelerate action”. Speaking frankly she said, … Read more
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 2011, Nestlé has committed to making their entire Australian Kit Kat range traffik-free and UTZ certified! Read more… Not … Read more
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 companies to get on board with using cocoa in their products that isn’t grown and picked using trafficked child labour. From sending postcards, letters, … Read more
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 The Little Red Hen was making Easter Eggs, but she was getting tired of doing all the work. She called a … Read more
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 Easter to give us traffik-free chocolate! The winning slogan will be revealed on Mr. Cocoa Bean’s placard when we launch our Nestlé Easter Campaign in a couple of … Read more
‘Have a Heart Nestlé’ Twitter Awards
In the run up to Valentine’s day, people from all over the world used love poems and Valentine’s messages on Twitter to tell Nestlé to ‘Have A Heart’ and put an end to trafficked labour in their supply chains. We thought we’d give some public recognition to the literary genius of STOP THE TRAFFIK supporters … Read more
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 chocolate industry into making ethical and traffik free choices. The industry has responded and we now have more traffik free … Read more
Global Newsround 21/05/2010
ONLINE PROTEST MAKES CHOCOLATE GIANT CUT ITS DEFORESTATION FOOTPRINT STOP THE TRAFFIK thinks the Greenpeace campaign -that has seen Nestlé succumb to eco-friendly palm oil- is a great illustration of what community action can achieve through the power of new media campaigns by NGOs, which can galvanise multinationals in a way that was not possible … Read more
Global Chocolate Campaign
I’m always surprised to see how many amazing anti-trafficking blogs there are. I try and read as many as I can and connect with activists from all over the world. There are so many interesting things to learn and really exciting campaigns happening to end modern-day slavery in its many forms. At STOP THE TRAFFIK … Read more
The campaign in Spain falls mainly on…NESTLÉ!
There’s no denying we were excited when Nestlé announced the arrival of a Fair trade four-finger Kit Kat in the UK last December. But so far that’s all they’ve promised. As for the rest of Europe and the world, we’ve heard nothing. Nichts. Nada. Fortunately, the good people of Spain aren’t taking ¡no! for an answer. … Read more
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 started to change the chocolate loving world….. Cadbury have started giving us traffik free Dairy Milk, Mars have made promises, Swiss Noir and Verkade are on … Read more
Tell us when, Nestlé!
The press has been full of the most amazing reports which say that Nestlé and Fairtrade have been talking together about chocolate! Not just any chocolate, but Kit Kat itself, the number one chocolate bar! Wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing, Fairtrade and therefore traffik free chocolate in all the vending machines, in the corner … Read more
Rumours that Nestlé are in Fair Trade talks
Internet rumours are rife!! Could this be true? Are Nestlé really in Fair trade certification ‘talks’ over Kit Kat? It is being tweeted all over the place that Nestlé are apparently in negotiations with Fairtrade, discussing the possible ethical certification of Kit Kats. If this is true then STOP THE TRAFFIK have not yet heard … Read more
