WEBINAR: Human Rights Due Diligence in the Cocoa Sector: The Role of Retailers

Retailers, like all companies, have a responsibility, and increasing legal requirements, to respect human rights within their direct operations and throughout their supply chain, by conducting ongoing and risk-based Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD). This means proactively identifying and assessing human rights risks and impacts and taking appropriate steps to prevent and address them.

In the cocoa sector, child labour and forced labour are both recognised as salient human rights issues which should be tackled as a priority.
However, with an indirect sourcing model it may be challenging to understand responsibilities and how to engage with suppliers and business partners to address these issues, especially for their own label chocolate.

Organised by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) in collaboration with IDH on behalf of the Dutch Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (DISCO) and the Belgian Sustainable Cocoa Partnership (Beyond Chocolate), the Initiative Française pour un Cacao Durable (IFCD), the German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO) and the Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa (SWISSCO), the purpose of this webinar is to discuss challenges retailers face in embedding human rights due diligence mechanisms to address child labour and forced labour risks in their cocoa supply chains, possible ways to overcome them drawing from good practice examples.