The ‘Behind the Brands’ campaign will launch in more than 12 countries including the U.S., China, Brazil and across Europe.
Its first public action will target Nestle, Mondelez and Mars for their failure to address inequality faced by women who grow cocoa for their chocolate products.
Oxfam has also released a brief with first-hand accounts of the inequality that women cocoa growers face. Oxfam is urging the three companies to do more to know and show how women are treated in their supply chains, create an action plan to address inequality for women in their supply chains, and engage in advocacy to influence other powerful actors to do the same.
Source: Oxfam.
Notes:
1. Oxfam has engaged with all 10 companies during the last year who have cooperated in providing data to inform this scorecard. The scorecard will be updated if companies change their policies.
2. Oxfam rated the companies on their policies on seven topics: how they ensure the rights of the workers and farmers who grow their ingredients; how they protect women’s rights; management of land and water use; climate change and the transparency of their supply chains; policies and operations. It did not review other important policies such as those dealing with nutrition, tax and waste, for example.
