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- Approximately 17 percent of the worlds slaves are in 10 countries, including India, china and Pakistan.

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-  About 400 cocoa beans are need to make one pound of chocolate.
-  The cocoa pods are sprayed with poisonous pesticides.
- Every day in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon about 300,000 children pick cocoa beans that will be sold to BIG Chocolate companies.

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- The kids who worked at cacao farm had to work in scorching heat.
-  Boys are getting beat with bicycle chains and cacao tree branches.
- These boys had to sleep in a windowless room sleeping on wooden boards. On good days they ate burned bananas and corn paste. A tin can served as their toilet.

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-chocolate protocol deadline has been moved from 2005 to 2008
-The chocolate war: children were threatened into working on cocoa farms
-children had to climb trees with sharp machetes and no safety

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ILO    rooting out child labor from cocoa farms

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ILO    rooting out child labor from cocoa farms

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about 70% of the worlds 218 million child laborers work in  agriculture.

they miss out on school and are exposed to serious hazards and exploitations

ILO a partnership to combat child labour in the chocolate and cocoa industry: many causes of child labour. they include household poverty,the reliance of families on their children's income, and lack of access to an education

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the dark side of chocolate (documentary)

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the dark side of chocolate (documentary)

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knowledge of the problem is spreading and many major government officials have been notified but still there has been very little change

a majority of farms aren't owned by the chocolate companies so they can do little to help the cause.

it's dangerous to be a reporter trying to research the cocoa industry. a reporter called Guy-andre kieffer who was kidnapped for having too much information on the human trafficking system.he has never been found

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The dark side of chocolate (documentary)

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The dark side of chocolate (documentary)

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interpol rescued 65 children and could have saved more if the townspeople hadn't caught on and started to hide the children

a girl they interviewed (and helped not get trafficked) told them that the traffickers promised that she would earn money. she said that her parents would be mad at her for coming home without money

children that work on cocoa farms work with pesticides. the affect of being exposed to so much of it will come on to them in 20-30 years.

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The dark side of chocolate (documentary)

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The dark side of chocolate (documentary)

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the children are scared of the police because they are working with the traffickers. along with militias.

42% of the worlds cocoa production comes from ivory coast

a child from the neighboring country Burkina Faso, can be bought for 230€(248.11)

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square deal: fair trade chocolate for fundraisers (sirs)

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square deal: fair trade chocolate for fundraisers (sirs)

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a volunteer group called Project Hope built schools, donated machetes, boots, scales to weigh cocoa, educational materials, school fees, and freezers to cocoa farmers to help make the treatment of workers better, and to help harvest the cocoa more efficiently

The Dark side of chocolate (documentary) traffickers show up at local markets and lure/take the children away without telling the parents

traffickers surround children on their motorbikes and take them 1 by 1 over the border to ivory coast using illegal back roads (that go across the border).

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-Harkin-Engel Protocol (signed by largest chocolate producing companies) states that child labor and trafficking are prohibited in the chocolate industries after 2008
- Mali is one of the worlds poorest countries and has little or no exports, that is why children are so willing to work if they are promised good wages and working conditions
-Traffickers will stop on the side of the road and ask if the children will come to get "good wages" and working conditions and take the children then, if they can, and don't usually tell the parents

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square deal: fair trade chocolate for fundraisers (sirs)

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square deal: fair trade chocolate for fundraisers (sirs)

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ivory coast tripled it's cocoa output from between 1955-1970. they are encouraging migrant worker to go to africa and work as farm workers.

cocoa costs plummeted in the 1980s and 90s. they turned to cheap child labor

TransFair USA makes sure that the companies associated with it pay a fair price to the cacao farmers

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Analysis; Chocolate and Child Slave Labor

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Analysis; Chocolate and Child Slave Labor

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-Industries couldn't meet the deadline, and they'd had 4 years
Documentary. The Dark Side of Chocolate
- Many employees do not know whether or not their chocolate is a result of child labor and most think it is very wrong if it is
-Trafficking- Smuggling children across borders illegally.(ex: From Mali to the Ivory Coast

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-Miami-Dade school district wants to ban all chocolate to protest child labor
-Protest unsuccessful because it is almost impossible to know which chocolate producers using illegal child labor to work
Analysis; Chocolate and Child Slave Labor
- In 2001, Harkin-Engel protocol in 2001 states that in 4 years,they need labels to certify that their chocolate was not made by the abuse of child laborers

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Child Slavery and Chocolate : All to Easy To Find

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Child Slavery and Chocolate : All to Easy To Find

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- Many children who are are slaves think that the chocolate companies are not doing nearly enough to stop child labor
- The government is one of the major players in the cocoa trade and they blame it on politics and war
- The war at the Ivory Coast actually helped slow down the child labor problem and people are afraid that when they make peace, the problem will be bigger than ever

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the bodage between poverty and slavery (gale)

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the bodage between poverty and slavery (gale)

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most of the slave/ cacao farm work doesn't come from smuggled foreign slaves. there are only a few of those people

slaves to chocolate:thousand of boys toil on ivory coast cacao farm. if you fell no one will help you up because they were to busy beating you til you got up yourself

Ivory Coast seeks chocolate fairness for farmers. unless farmers of cacao get paid more, child labor will continue along with the slavery

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Child Slavery and Chocolate; All to Easy To Find

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Child Slavery and Chocolate; All to Easy To Find

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-Harkin-Engel Protocol
After intense lobbying, they still couldn't make this a law stating that their couldn't be child labor chocolate
Child Slavery and Chocolate; All to Easy To Find
- Instead of getting a mandatory law, they got a voluntary protocol to stop the worst forms of child labor
-an estimated half a million children are forced to work along the Ivory Coast which produces nearly 40% of the worlds supply of cocoa

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- Not only were children tricked into working in cacao farms, they also were threatened
-  Children forced to use machetes and dangerous pesticides with little or no protection
Chocolate Changemaker
-  Often children were smuggled into other countries or areas where children do not speak the same language so even if they do escape, it would be difficult to communicate

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-Many children sold and are  forced to work 12 hour days or work as laborers in family-run farms
-Many organizations working to move children from abusive farms and teach the farmers about
child labor awareness
-2001- Journalists reveal about the illegal child slavery, a secret that had been kept for a very long time

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-poor countries send children to work in different countries, in exchange the government is paid
- Fair  Trade program- companies pay cacao farms fairly, enough to feed their family, ave food on the table, and go to school
The Chocolate War
- More that half of the children slaves re under the age of 14

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BBA freeing kids from slavery, has freed more that 80000
-Instead of earning money, the slaves usually end up owing money (meals, water, fines for not working fast enough, etc.) This dept becomes so big that they can never work it off
-2012, President Barack Obama declares the U.S. gov. won't buy any goods made by slaves because that is not what american tax dollars should go toward
-Products made buy slaves are usually cheap and found around the world, that's why slave owners can't afford to pay them,(fish, electronics, cloths, chocolate)

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-About 76% of today's "modern slaves" are from 10 countries which include Russia, India, and China
The Bitter Side of Sweet
- The reason bosses of chocolate farms usually don't pay their workers is because they usually don't make that that much money themselves
Chocolate from Children
-Many kids can't go to school because they don't have time because they are spending so much time harvesting the cocoa

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child slaves are bought for no more than 10 dollars a piece. they work 12-24 hours a day with little food and no pay

Ivory coast and Ghana produce 72% of the worlds chocolate

Chocolate from Children                         is 2001 US government created an agreement for all chocolate companies to eliminate cocoa harvested by slaves by 2005. that still hasn't ended child/slave labor  .

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300000 kids pick cocoa. most work on their family farms. 6000 work as slaves, and are sometimes whipped.

cocoa farmers  make around $30 - $100 a year. they dont earn enough to pay their workers and to feed their families.

21st century slaves kids "work day and night in factories, mines, homes, fields, restaurants, and hotels. They aren't allowed to go to school, see their families, or play outside"

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Many children there had not even ever tasted chocolate and didn't know what they were harvesting for
Chocolate From Children
-It Takes about 400 cocoa beans  to make a pound of chocolate. And there are about 30-50 cocoa beans in each pod.
21 Century Slavery
-Many boys came from poor families and it was tradition for them to leave their family when they were old enough and work for money to bring back, usually they only worked for a season at a time

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-Many Boys were used to beatings,
got little food,
were promised something they did not get,
were locked up at night to prevent escape,
were young and had to lift heavy things
The Bitter Side of Sweet
-Some people are trying to make it so a label has to be put on proving that children were not forced to helping the process of making the chocolate
10 Plants that Shook the World
-Although slavery is illegal, some people who are forcing kids to work on their fields don't consider it slavery

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Hershey was the last to agree to the Cocoa Protocol (buy cocoa from child labor free places)

21 century slaves  (sirs) Traffickers promise children that they will get an education and earn money to send back home. But not often does this  happen. It's tricking kids and  trapping them

kids "work day and night in factories, mines, homes, fields, restaurants, and hotels. They aren't allowed to go to school, see their families, or play outside"

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10,000 children slaves are from  human trafficking and enslavement.

child slaves were robbed their freedom and childhood

large chocolate bar companies make $100 billion but the cocoa farms get "pennies of each of those dollars