Many global companies make large profits from cocoa produced by children in slavery working in the cocoa sector in the Ivory Coast. Big multinational commodity trading companies buy cocoa sourced from Ivorian cocoa farms where children in slavery are frequently found, and export it to the global brands which make and sell chocolate worldwide.  Sustained action from concerned consumers has helped pressure some of the world’s major chocolate companies to take responsibility to help end the appalling practice of using child slaves within cocoa production. However, the ‘middlemen’ trading companies have quietly sat by and done little to tackle the issue, failing to take their proper share of responsibility for the part they play in the problem, whilst continuing to make large amounts of money from trading cocoa. This is why we need your action to target cocoa traders- Cargill, ADM and Barry Callebaut - and tell them they must increase their efforts to end child slavery in the industry. Read More and take action here