Ivory Coast Produces the Most Cocao Beans and Trafficking of Children

Child labor in the chocolate industry is an issue that effects children in impoverished countries in West Africa, but should be taken care of together by society. The article, Child Labor and Slavery, goes into further detail about the child labor and slavery involved in the industry and how children are forced into these immoral practices. The awful reality is that “hundreds of thousands of children are being purchased from their parents or outright stolen and then shipped to Ivory Coast, where they are enslaved on cocoa farms” (Gregory, 1). The children in West Africa are generally surrounded by severe poverty, which leads to children working at a young age to help support their family. Many of the children laboring on cocoa farms are between

Child labor is a serious problem that affects children from third-world countries all over the world. These children are exploited by multinational corporations ,for their cheap labor all over the world. People, then buy products that come at a cheaper price, from these multinational corporations.These children are often overworked and treated unfairly. People need to stop buying items from countries that endorse child labor.

Human trafficking and child abuse are major problems along the west coast of Africa. Cocoa plantations are so notorious for the use of forced child labor (and forced adult labor) that U.S. Representative Eliot Engel and Senator Tom Harkin created a protocol to end child slavery and initiate labeling for products that are produced “slave free.” A joint committee was formed and called the International Cocoa Initiative, with the aim to have a

Bottling of freshwater from a rare resource in the Fiji Islands, and harvesting of cocoa beans via child slave labor in West Africa, are both ethically questionable. Business practices from both commodities have little regard on damages inflicted during their production. Ethical issues, similarities, and differences with both commodities will be contrasted, a presentation of socially responsible

Many of the products that are used and consumed in the United States are made in other countries. One of the main reasons for multinational corporations to produce goods in countries other than the United States is the cost of production. It is far cheaper to produce goods such as blue jeans, paper goods, and plastic toys to name a few. In recent years the conditions in sweatshops in China, Japan, and elsewhere have garnered public outcry from Countries like the U.S. and most of Europe. The main contention, child labor in dangerous and horrid conditions. However one often overlooked example of child labor in sweatshop-like conditions exists were many people never thought. The chocolate we eat. “From 2013 to 2014 more than 1.1 million children in the Ivory Coast were engaged in the most common Worst Forms of Child Labor as recognized by the United Nations… up from 791,181 children from 2008 to 2009” (Berman, 2015). The benefactors of this child labor are huge multinational enterprises such as Nestle, Mars Inc., and The Hershey Co.

This is something that needs to be address. Think of the toll that war has on adults, now imagine a child having to bear that burden. I think that seeing the video in class will help people understand and want to stop the injustice here. If someone can see what is going on with these kids and still not care about them, then I do not know what will make them care. The Catholic Social Teachings at play here are a call to community to stop this injustice, and a disregard of the life and dignity of each person. People need to a vision and a mind that says they can do something about this, even though it is not right at there doorstep. This is not something that can be put off, we can make a change

The next time when you are out on your shopping trip, chances you may have support a business that exploits children. It is very disturbing and heartbreaking to learn many children are chained to looms for 12 hours a day because families need to have their child bringing home a small amount of moneys. Child labor has always been a difficult subject to address, the topic have become much more complicated and prolific.

Human trafficking is the second largest organized crime in the world (Attorney General 's Office, and Heald, Oliver QC MP). For years, people have enlisted work to be completed by slaves. These slaves are sometimes children whose parents are unable to care for them due to poverty. The desire for slavery has evolved to trafficking. This result, can affect children of all ages, although most children are twelve years or older when they are identified (Setter). Children are often tricked, forced or persuaded to leave their homes. Each of the victims’ stories is different; however, their experiences of abuse and exploitation as domestic slaves are similar (Human Trafficking, 2010). Their parents hope for them a better life by giving the child to another family in hopes for a better education. These people are there to take advantage of the child. They treat the child as a slave, or even worse: use them for adulterous purposes. People need to take a stand against this and protect our children.

It saddens me to think that child labour is often required in some families to survive and little pay the children get at the cost of an education. It is estimated that 27 million people are trapped in slavery today, through sexual exploitation, forced labour, pedophilia and torture - more than in any other time in history. It is said that 5.6 million of these people are children and that many, many more children are labouring to support their families (very low pay). Some additional information I learnt was that 58% of all trafficking cases were for the purpose of sexual exploitation and that 56% of all forced labour occurs in the Asia Pacific region. The most unfortunate statistic to me is that it is a very profitable “business” and that the illegal trade generates more than $150 billon US each year as it is a low-risk trade for extremely high

Ever since I was a little girl I loved every dessert that had chocolate in it. However, when I was thirteen I learned about the unethical practices that chocolate-producing companies use in order to harvest cacao, of the children in third-world countries who are kidnapped and forced into slavery to produce chocolate, how they work long hours and are often beaten as punishment for not meeting a certain quota without pay or seeing their families. This alarmed me because at the time I had just learned about the treatment of child laborers prior to the passage of child labor laws in my history class. Many of my classmates and I had our eyes opened to such egregious acts for the first time and were appalled.

The early stages of making chocolate are done by children, mostly ages 12 to 16, who have been captured and trafficked. These children have been taken from their families in countries such Mali and Burkina Faso and sold to cocoa farms. The children undergo terrible working conditions which exposes them to harsh chemicals. Some are often the victims of mental, physical and or sexual abuse. (Huschke 2011)

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

The Ivory Coast is on the west coast of africa and was a French colony. When the Spanish started colonizing latin america they were introduced to the world of chocolate. (background essay) When the Spanish brought this sweet treat back, Europe fell in love with it. The French colonized the western coast of Africa and started to grow the chocolate there because it was closer to Europe. Although chocolate is good for the Ivory Coast's economy it has severe negative side effects to the land and people around the area. The production of chocolate is ruining the environment, causing illegal and dangerous child labor, and the workers are not getting paid well enough for the work they do.

Human trafficking is the first of the issues prevalent in the cocoa trade. Human trafficking occurs when the cocoa plantations contract workers from neighboring countries to smuggle

In the United States, child labor and sweatshops are illegal, and society frowns upon any business that exploits children in the production of goods. Though most would say that they would not support a company that uses child labor to produce its goods, almost everyone has, in fact, knowingly or unknowingly, supported these businesses in one way or another. Children are involved in the production of many of the everyday goods we import from overseas, including the manufacturing of clothes, shoes, toys, and sporting equipment, the farming of cocoa, cotton, sugarcane, and bananas, and the mining of coal, diamonds, and gold (The U.S. Dept. of Labor). Often, we are blinded to this fact.