Campaign targets Easter eggs linked to child slavery

Members of Australian religious congregations and other church groups have joined an international campaign urging consumers to buy Easter eggs certified to have been manufactured without the use of children trafficked into slavery and made to work on cocoa plantations in countries including Ivory Coast, writes Mark Brolly.

Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (Acrath) and others including Caritas Australia and diocesan social justice groups have joined Stop the Traffik to raise awareness about the plight of children in West Africa and to persuade Australians to buy only “slavery-free” chocolate.