Child Slavery Fight for Chocolate CompaniesByline: By Emily BeamentThe Birmingham Post (England)
While the eradication of slave labor has the attention of government agencies and major manufacturers, it does not have a comprehensive approach to facilitate quick resolutions. This chapter aims to evaluate the trafficking of children in Western Africa and the connection to chocolate manufacturers and...
syn:slavery,bondage,servituderefer to involuntary subjection to another or others.slaveryemphasizes the idea of complete ownership and control by a master:to be sold into slavery.bondageindicates a state of subjugation or captivity often involving burdensome and degrading labor:in bondage to a cruel ...
LABOR: CHOCOLATE FIRMS AGREE TO FIGHT COCOA CHILD SLAVERYJim Lobe
They set out to get the cheapest labor even knowing it might be obtained through child slavery. They had enough say in the Ivory Coast’s cocoa market to stop the problem, but didn’t. In the US, they lobbied against regulations that would require slave free labeling. All in all, what...
The chocolate industry has problems. Twenty years after promising to phase out the “worst forms” ofchild labor on cocoa plantations, chocolate brands still haven’t succeeded. In Ivory Coast, where a third of the world’s cocoa is grown, rainforests are plowed down for ...
, but child slavery is unanimously the worst form of child labor that exists and is unacceptable at any age in any country. There are millions of children trafficked around the world and forced into lives of depravity and despair. Here are 10 of the worst kinds of modern child slavery....
Another Sub-Saharan African industry dependent on child labor is cocoa, used in the production of chocolate. The U.S. Labor Department report said child labor is prevalent on cocoa plantations in Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea and Sierra Leone. In two other nations — Ivory Coast and Nigeria — it...
Child Slavery and Chocolate: All Too Easy to FindDaloa, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- Chocolate's billion-dollar industrystarts with workers like Abdul...David McKenzieBrent Swails
Chocolate manufacturers intensifying efforts to curb child slavery in Africa.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)Chatterjee, Sumana