Child Labor, Slavery, And Human Trafficking

208). The international market had an increasing need for reliable and homogenous product, resulting in nearly identical practices on farms throughout the country (Losch, 2002, p. 208). When Côte d’Ivoire became independent, it resulted in a dramatic spike in production that would help make the country become a market leader (Losch, 2002, p. 208). By the 1980s, the cocoa sector had been received the local government’s blessing and gained a reputation for quality mass production (Losch, 2002, p. 210). This reputation was well-merited; Côte d’Ivoire has supplied almost 50 percent of internationally traded cocoa since the 1970s and continues to do so to this day (Losch, 2002, p. 206).

Overview: Every country in the world has now abolished slavery, yet millions of people continue to find themselves subject to contemporary forms of slavery and human trafficking, such as child labor, sex traf-ficking and forced or bonded labor. In this paper I will demonstrate why it is important to recognize human trafficking as a matter of human rights and social justice, rooted in larger structural issues relating to the global economy, human security, foreign policy, and labor and gender relations. Such reframing involves overcoming several of the most difficult barriers to the development of human rights discourse: women's rights as human rights, labor rights as a unification of structure and agency, the interdepend-ence of migration

The middle men who buy the cocoa from the farmers do not tell the farmers the current prices for cocoa, thus preventing the farmers from making a profit and enabling them to pay their workers. The chocolate companies buy the refined cocoa from these middle men, and sell finished chocolate products that were partially produced through slave labor. The consumers

Sex trafficking occurs when someone uses force, fraud to cause a commercial sex act with an adult or causes a minor to commit a commercial sex act. A sex commercial includes prostitution, pornography and sexual performance done in exchange for any item item of value, such as money, drugs, shelter, food or clothes. Sex trafficking is the modern day slavery and must be recognized internationally this crime needs to be weeded out. Victims from sex trafficking can be from the U.S. , foreign nationals, women, men, and children.Traffickers target most Runaway, and Homeless youth.

America is unknowingly supporting child slave labor by buying chocolate from the Hershey, Mars, and Nestle companies. In an effort to keep the prices of chocolate low, these big brands get their cacao needed to make America’s favorite dessert from child slavers on the Ivory Coast, thus promoting the slavers to keep routinely working and beating the child laborers. The chocolate industry is expected to experience a growth in demand of 30% by 2020. This would be a total of 4.5 million tons of chocolate in less than 4 years! Now, this should sound like good news for Ivory Coast cacao farmers and businesses alike, but in actuality it will result in the disregard for the livelihoods of more than five million small-scale family farmers who grow ninety percent of the world's cocoa mean that the industry may simply be unable to provide sufficient supply to meet the

What is human trafficking? How does it affect us? Do you believe that it’s a form of slavery? We live in a world that has accepted men’s control for over decades of years. Human trafficking consists of the use of innocent lives to exploit vulnerable girls and women through forceful stripping of their dignity and self-worth. In a world that is consider to have equalities and rights, females are still suffering from this horrific tragedy of being abducted and forced into sex slavery globally, they’re manipulated into believing that they have a chance to be financially successful once they arrived to Unites States. The things we see on media, we immediately judge individuals and blame them for putting themselves there. Media catches

According to Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry, ( n.d,) West Africa supplies up to 70% of the global supply of cocoa which is used by the world’s preeminent chocolate manufacturers. Unfortunately, stakeholders claim that the cocoa farmers are poorly paid and have resorted to child labor in order to stay competitive. West Africa has a plethora of poor families that are willing to allow their children to work and the children themselves are lured by promises of high pay. Furthermore, it is alleged that children as young as five have been sold to the cocoa farmers, that work them mercilessly from sunup till sundown in

The processing steps are determining whether the beans become cocoa or cacao. They start from the same place, but the processing makes all the difference.

is not uncommon for a child to work, but it crosses the line when it comes to certain jobs such as domestic servitude or prostitution (“Child Labor,” 2016). Children may be saved or removed from their enslavement, but need to have the help to either further education or be given an opportunity where their life will be substantial. The goal is to not have them fall back into enslavement, but also to not shift to another forced trafficking such as the sex trade (Humanity United, 2015).

Cocoa beans with they white pulp are put into a container, usually a wooden box.

Human Trafficking is defined in article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. There are three constituent elements of the trafficking of persons, The Act (what is done), The Means (how it is done), and The Purpose (Why it is done). Under the element of The Act, falls things such as transport, transfer, harbouring, and recruitment. The Means of how trafficking is done includes threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim. The last element, the purpose includes things such as exploitation, which includes exploiting the prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or

Cacao trees can live to be 200 years old, but they produce marketable cocoa beans for only 25 years. l

Today, Africa faces many economical struggles such as Child labor and trafficking, poverty, piracy, Boko Haram, poaching, and much more. These problems have created great controversy around the world and has created problems with countries outside of Africa. Out of all of these problems, Child labor and trafficking are one that causes the most controversy across the world. Most of the children are tricked into going to work with the traffickers because they are manipulated into thinking they will be paid. This is the biggest problem in Africa because it is causing young children to work as slaves in chocolate factories, children are being threatened to work in dangerous work spaces, and they are unable to get the education they need to get out of poverty, which they live in

Chocolate is made from cacao beans that grow in tropical places like West Africa. The countries in West Africa supply more than 70 percent of the world’s cocoa. They sell the cocoa they grow and harvest to many of the chocolate companies who make our chocolate candy bars.

Cocoa plantation needs a healthy and vigorous tree because their life span is more than 25 years in producing pods. The infected cocoa trees by diseases will be partly or entirely weakening, thus unproductive and dead