December 2020 Supreme Court Debrief: Nestle V. Doe Oral Arguments
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Panelists:
Paul Hoffman, Schonbrun Seplow Harris & Hoffman, counsel of record for Respondents
Terrence Collingsworth, Executive Director, International Rights Advocates, counsel of record for Respondents
Beth Van Schaack, Stanford Law School, counsel on Amicus Brief for Respondents on behalf of International Law Scholars, Former Diplomats, and Practitioners
Shawn Askinosie, Founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate, joined 18 other small and mid-sized cocoa and chocolate companies as amici curiae for Respondents
Diana Kearney, Legal and Shareholder Advocacy Advisor, Oxfam America, joined brief of Economics Professors as amici curiae for Respondents
Moderated by Charity Ryerson, Founder and Executive Director of Corporate Accountability Lab.
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Antonie C. Fountain & Friedel Huetz-Adams, Cocoa Barometer 2020, Voice Network.
Corporate Accountability Lab, Empty Promises: The Failure of Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives to Improve Farmer Incomes in the Ivorian Cocoa Sector, July 2019.
Corporate Accountability Lab, CAL and IRAdvocates Challenge Importation of Cocoa Produced with Forced Child Labor, February 14, 2020.
Peter Whoriskey, U.S. report: Much of the world’s chocolate supply relies on more than 1 million child workers, Washington Post, October 19, 2020.
Salwan Georges and Peter Whoriskey, The children who harvest cocoa, Washington Post, December 30, 2019.
Peter Whoriskey, Chocolate companies sell ‘certified cocoa.’ But some of those farms use child labor, harm forests, Washington Post, October 23, 2019.
Peter Whoriskey and Rachel Siegel, Cocoa's Child Laborers, Washington Post, June 5, 2019.
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