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    Child slavery is a major social issue worldwide. A social issue (also called a social problem, social conflict, or social illness) refers to an issue that influences a considerable number of individuals within a society. Child slavery is in which a child works for a slave owner for long hours and possibly bad conditions(most child slaves are paid a lot less than minimum wage and have terrible working conditions). Many people suffer from this social issue because they have no money and need to sell

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    Out of 100 children 16 of them are active in child slavery. Ten percent of those children thought about giving up. Many of those children may never go to school. My objective today is to talk to you about child slavery and express to you about their feeling. There are about 200 million children dealing with child slavery daily. 100 million of those children are 15 years old or younger. Some were as young as 4 years old. These children work jobs such as chores in the house, construction, and

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    Despite their role in contributing to child labor, slavery, and human trafficking, the chocolate industry has not taken significant steps to remedy the problem. Within their $60-billion industry, chocolate companies have the power to end the use of child labor and slave labor by paying cocoa farmers a living wage for their product. The chocolate industry is also being called upon to develop and financially support programs to rescue and rehabilitate children who have been sold to cocoa farms. To

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    Yapi (2005) highlights the problem of child slavery and its negative impacts on the society. This study raised questions on the extent of child slavery in our society. A child is considered slave if he is under the age of 18, receives extremely little or no pay, is controlled by violence or other threats, has no option to leave the situation, has no access to education or health care. There are more than 9 million child slaves in the world. The average price of a slave today is $80. One in every

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    Child slavery and child labor on chocolate plantations is one of the world’s greatest concerns at the moment. Chocolate plantations are specifically mentioned because chocolate is such a large industry and many kids, particularly in tropical African countries, are affected by child labor. In Côte d’Ivoire alone, around 15,000 children are slaves working on chocolate, or cacao, plantations. (american.edu) This problem is concerning because not only is it unethical, but child labor and, therefore

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    of worker’s benefit. Child labor is very common in sweatshops. Workers in sweatshops are often missing key pieces of safety equipment such as face masks to ensure safe breathing or work in environments with insufficient means of emergency exit since employers may lock the doors and windows to prevent theft during working hours (Hartman ). The workers are abused, beaten, kicked, and shoved, even if they are sick or pregnant. Sweatshop is nothing but a modern form of slavery, because the workers are

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    the customer. However, there is no one knows where do the cocoa beans come from and how do they produce the cocoa beans. Beyond of the halo of chocolate, there is a cruel and no humanity activity is happening in Ivory Coast called child slavery. Why is the child slavery so normal in West Africa? The main factor is the cocoa price is too low that makes the farmer cannot earn enough money to employ adult employer. In Ivory Coast, the traffickers are very enthusiastic in Ivory Coast to transport the

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    Despite slavery being deemed illegal across the majority of the world, millions of people are subjected to slave-like conditions on a daily basis, many of whom are children with little options for change. One aspect of slavery that commands particular attention is the exploitation of children in various factories and farms which continues to flourish in Africa, various south east Asian countries, Cambodia and India. Despite the rapid decrease in child slaves between 2000 and 2015 as a result of non-government

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    development as young children. Child slavery does not allow for children as young as 5 to 15 years of age to receive fair treatment. My topic relates to groups of children that are sold or bought into the child slavery industry. They receive unfair treatment by being forced to work long, agonizing hours that no child should be working. They are not able to go to school and develop normal skills a child their age should be getting. Children that are forced into child labor aren't ready whatsoever to

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    Child Labor There is a chance the clothing you are currently wearing was made by a child. Child labor has poisoned the market for hundreds of years. Corporations exploit children in a variety of industries including clothing, food production, and natural resource acquisition. According to the world count of child labor and statistics, over 200 million children are currently bound in child labor contracts. Of those, 73 million are under the age of 10. This legal enslavement is torturous, cruel, and

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