News from ICI
- ICI and its members scale up coverage of systems that prevent and address child labour in Pledge for Action8 June 2022The International Labour Organisation and Alliance 8.7 declared 2021 the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, challenging stakeholders at all levels as well as individuals to shift from commitment to action to tackle child labour and make a Pledge for Action. In response to this call, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and its members pledged to scale up systems that prevent and address child labour, in line with human rights due diligence (HRDD) efforts, aiming for 540,000 cocoa-growing households in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana by the end of 2021. Today, in recognition ofRead more
- Tackling child labour and forced labour in Ghanaian cocoa and gold mining17 May 2022In some regions in the southern and middle belt of Ghana, cocoa farming and gold mining occur in the same communities. This means that efforts to tackle child labour and forced labour need to beRead more
- Daloa and Soubré: Cargill equips 8 cocoa farming communities with quality school infrastructure12 May 2022Eight schools making a total of thirty-six c lassrooms built by Cargill and its partners Mars Wrigley and Hershey, and implemented by ICI, were officially opened from March 16 to 24, supportingRead more
- HYBRID EVENT: Public and private sector collaboration: Integrated approaches to prevent and address child labour9 May 2022The 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour will be held from 15 - 20 May in Durban, South Africa. The conference, organized by the International Labour Organization and Alliance 8.7Read more
- Agro-commodity trading company ETG joins ICI3 May 2022The Netherlands-based company Export Trading Group (ETG), a trader and processor of agricultural commodities, has joined ICI in its efforts to better tackle child labour and forced labour in its cocoaRead more
- Gender equality and child well-being in cocoa-growing communities25 April 2022Listening, asking questions, and discussing sensitive topics in a safe environment is what regularly brings together members of the Assemanou community, 37km from Abengourou in Côte d’Ivoire. Over theRead more
- ONLINE EVENT - EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive applied to the cocoa sector31 March 2022April 13th, 4pm – 5:30pm CET On 23 February, the European Commission, published a proposal for a Directive on human rights and environmental due diligence. The Directive has been designed to improveRead more