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Just a week before the biggest candy-shopping holiday of the year, yesterday the Sixth District Court downtown held the first hearing in the case brought against Nestle, Cargill and Archer Daniels-Midland by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The ILO is charging that these three corporations knowingly supported the trafficking, torture and forced labor of child slaves in Cote d'Ivoire, one of the major cocoa-producers in West Africa. The three companies have been targeted because they collectively control the largest portion of the chocolate importing market.