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‘The Chocolate War’ Pits U.S. Human Rights Lawyer Against Corporate America

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Lise Pedersen After watching Danish director Miki Mistrati’s “The Chocolate War,” which is having its world premiere at CPH:DOX this week, chances are you will think twice before buying your next chocolate bar.That’s what happened to Mistrati back in the early 2000s when he went shopping in his local supermarket.

Spoilt for choice, he looked at all the different bars of chocolate and only found one out of seven that bore the Fair Trade mark. “So I began to wonder: if one is Fair Trade, what about the other six chocolate bars?,” he says.That marked the start of his journey to investigate child slavery in the cocoa plantations of Ivory Coast and Ghana, the two biggest cocoa producers in the world.

It started with “The Dark Side of Chocolate” released in 2009 and was followed by “Shady Chocolate” in 2012. “The Chocolate War” is the third installment.

Its main protagonist is prominent American human rights lawyer Terry Collingsworth, who has dedicated his life to fighting some of the world’s biggest corporations.

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