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Chocolate class action for alleged child labour

Consumers in the US state of California have filed a class action lawsuit against Nestlé, Mars and Hershey's for alleged child slave labour used in the production of cocoa beans in West Africa. The BBC's Newsday has been looking into this story.

(Photo: A boy from Burkina Faso working in a cacao plantation in Bononfla near Daloa, Ivory Coast. Credit: Issouf Sanogo AFP/Getty Images)

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