News from ICI
- Human Rights Due Diligence in the Cocoa Sector: What is the role of retailers?10 October 2024The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), in collaboration with the European sustainable cocoa platforms * recently organised the webinar on the topic of human rights due diligence in the cocoa sector: The role of retailers”. It brought together over 200 participants from a large variety of organisations, including cocoa and chocolate companies, public sector entities, certifiers, NGOs, CSOs, academia, as well as consultants and individual experts. Why this webinar? In the cocoa sector, where child labour and forced labour are recognised as salient human rights issues, retailers, like anyRead more
- Learning into Action: What works to implement bridging classes effectively30 September 2024In cocoa-growing communities, not all children may have had the chance to attend school, and others may have dropped out. Bridging classes help these children (re)integrate the formal school system byRead more
- One million smallholder cocoa-farming households in West Africa covered by ICI and its members with systems to tackle child labour18 September 2024In a drive for increased transparency in the cocoa sector, ICI and its members annually report details of activities to tackle child labour in cocoa. The results from the October 2022 – September 2023Read more
- Lutte contre la traite des personnes et le travail forcé dans la région du Tonkpi : Une cinquantaine d’acteurs mise à contribution29 July 2024Une cinquantaine de participants composés de Travailleurs Sociaux et de membres des Organisations de la Société Civile (autorités coutumières et religieuses, associations, ONG, etc.) a été formée àRead more
- Solar-powered borehole installed at elementary school funded by Twinings Ovaltine22 July 2024It's the borehole's solar panel that immediately catches the eye under the blazing sun in the courtyard of the public elementary school in the canton of Guizato (Man, Cote d’Ivoire). Completed lastRead more
- Global humanitarian organisation CARE International joins ICI as a Board member27 June 2024The global humanitarian organisation, CARE , has joined the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) as a Board member. The organisation, established in the 1940s, works to save lives, defeat poverty, andRead more
- WDACL 2024: ICI empowers young girls in cocoa-growing communities21 June 2024As part of the commemoration of the World Day Against Child Labour 2024, last week the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) partnered with Inspire Today to support about 1,000 female students in cocoaRead more