For more information about the Reverse Trick-or-Treating action, check out www.ReverseTrickOrTreating.org or contact Tim at tim.newman[at]ilrf.org or 202 347 4100.  Here are some other Halloween ideas to stop child labor in the cocoa industry:

The full list can be viewed on the HRW website here.  The list contains many human rights advocates who have traveled to the Philippines to document the ongoing extrajudicial violence targeting labor activists and others. 

SITRABI is the oldest union
in Guatemala and arguably
one of the strongest and the largest private sector union in Guatemala. This
is not the first attempt to intimidate workers.

• In 1999, in a case that brought international attention to violence against unionists in Guatemala, seven members of SITRABI were violently attacked and forced to flee to the United States. Their case became the key test on impunity for workers rights advocates and the U.S. government who put Guatemala’s trade benefits on probation until Guatemalan courts convicted the criminals.

The big question is whether the sale of Godiva will have any effect on their purchasing policies.  Godiva, like many US chocolate companies, buys cocoa beans from farms in Cote d'Ivoire where forced and child labor is widespread.  While billions are spent buying Godiva, are farmers and their children who farm the cocoa beans that create the company's source of profit going to see any benefit?