Children younger than 15 continue to work at cocoa farms connected to Nestlé, more than a decade after the food company promised to end the use of child labour in its supply chain.

A new report by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), commissioned by Nestlé, saw researchers visit 260 farms used by the company in Ivory Coast from September to December 2014. 

The researchers found 56 workers under the age of 18, of which 27 were under 15. Three plaintiffs claim that they were trafficked from their homes in neighboring west African countries and put to work on plantations on Ivory Coast. They described how they were whipped, beaten and forced to work for 14 hours a day before retiring to dank, dark rooms without windows to rest. On plaintiff recalled how guards would slice open the feet of any child worker who were caught trying to escape.