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http://www.endslaverynow.org/blog/articles/bitter-chocolate?gclid=CjwKCAjwnPOEBhA0EiwA609ReXgPO_59a-23mecpqbKqVbiFcSMN7bpHU0czNY6EJpFMGi6yxpQTQBoCeDUQAvD_BwE

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People need to raise more awareness about the issue of children working in cocoa farm by telling people about the horrible stories of young children who tell share their stories about their life working in the cocoa farm. So people can become more aware of the issue. People should support those organisations who tried to help make a stop to child labour in the chocolate industry

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The practice in the chocolate factory is illegal as children often end up in the cocoa farm because they need work and traffickers tell the children it is very good pay. These children are often unaware of the hazardous environment they are working with machines and chemicals that are dangerous for use in children's. Children who work in the cocoa farm are often not able to see their families for many years and the children have to work long working hour everyday which usually began at six in the morning and end in the evening.

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https://www.techsciresearch.com/report/australia-chocolate-market/1711.html

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the kids that are using these chemicals to help stop vegetation and wildlife from growing are not having the correct equipment to protect them from getting ill from these chemicals. without correct treatment this could lead to possible health issues or in turn death. by not giving the kids the correct equipment to use we are limiting there future to just using these chemicals and free labor until they die trying to have better future.
-  Riley & Clinton

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this is due to the constant use of anti-vegetation and pesticide. by using these chemicals constantly they are killing the plants and wildlife that is growing there, this is making it harder for the natural cycle and reproduction of species to occur meaning that it is harder if not impossible for the ecosystem to return to its previous state.
they are also burning the trees so that they can plant for of the cocoa trees to increase the amount of cocoa being grown in the areas by doing this you are removing parts of the environments that will take forever to regrow and rebuild the lost ecosystems.
- Riley

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Is there Child Labour in Your Chocolate? 

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Is there Child Labour in Your Chocolate? 

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https://www.greenamerica.org/end-child-labor-cocoa/chocolate-scorecard

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Choosing Fairtrade chocolate: Means you’re putting fair pay and more power into the hands of farmers and workers to invest in their communities

Fairtrade cocoa farmers in places like Ivory Coast and Ghana earn the Fairtrade minimum price for their crop, plus a Fairtrade Premium. It means they can cover household costs like education, food and health care and invest the extra Premium in projects to benefit the whole community, such as clean water or new classrooms

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From disadvantaged backgrounds which is often common in Africa, these children often have no protection. Their employers do whatever necessary to make them completely invisible and are thus able to exercise control over them. These children work in degrading conditions such as working with pesticides and sharp blades with no protection, undermining all the principles and fundamental rights based in human nature.

Additionally, a child who works will not be able to have a normal education and will be doomed to become an illiterate adult, having no possibility to grow in his or her professional and social life.

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We believe we are part of one human family and have a responsibility to help each person achieve their full potential. Child Slavery takes away a child's full potential as they are trapped in a constant cycle of work with barely any rest or education.

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Every human being is created in the image and likeness of God and therefore has inherent dignity that should always be safeguarded. With Child Slavery, the value of a person is diminished as they are owned by someone which takes away their dignity.

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https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/child-labor-in-chocolate-industry
- Aayla Moore

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Child trafficking and slaveryThe practice of child trafficking and slavery of children in the cocoa industry is very controversial. It is said that up to 200,000 children work in Côte d'Ivoire, the biggest cocoa producer in the world, who supplies 35% of global demands. The problem is most prevalent in West Africa’s Ivory Coast, which supplies 65% of the world’s cocoa.It is said that an estimated 1.8 million children are currently working in cocoa plantations. Children, between 10 to 15 years old and often younger, are used as slaves to pay off their family’s debts and being forced to do hazardous work. Sometimes they are even stolen from their parents, never to see them again. They are under fed and beaten when they try to escape.

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Child trafficking and slaveryThe practice of child trafficking and slavery of children in the cocoa industry is very controversial. It is said that up to 200,000 children work in Côte d'Ivoire, the biggest cocoa producer in the world, who supplies 35% of global demands. The problem is most prevalent in West Africa’s Ivory Coast, which supplies 65% of the world’s cocoa.It is said that an estimated 1.8 million children are currently working in cocoa plantations. Children, between 10 to 15 years old and often younger, are used as slaves to pay off their family’s debts and being forced to do hazardous work. Sometimes they are even stolen from their parents, never to see them again. They are under fed and beaten when they try to escape.

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-Aayla Moore

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Human Diginity and rights of the workers

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Human Diginity and rights of the workers

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-Aayla moore

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support companies that don't allow child slavery in this industry and promote/raise awareness about this issues + encourage awareness when buying

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doing research on companies that are against this issue

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doing research on companies that are against this issue

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That way, you are supporting the companies who are suffering the expense of having to make the chocolate themselves, and supporting the cause

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/business/hershey-nestle-mars-chocolate-child-labor-west-africa/

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This is because these children (as young as 6) do not get a fair pay,  do not have a right to leave, and are often trafficked. This issue was made aware to the larger chocolate industries, and those companies received massive backlash for the inequality.

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"So, when children get injured that reduces their life chances.”

Many chocolate companies such as Hershey's and Mars use child exploitation/child labor for their business whereas family local owned business not encourage appropriately paying farmers and workers including children

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http://fortune.com/big-chocolate-child-labor/

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We should think about the children's  who are being used as slaves to make chocolate. So the next time when we buy chocolate we should consider a more ethical brand

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Today, more than a quarter of the world's slaves are children. These children are forced to commit commercial sex acts, forced into a system of domestic servitude or employed in occupations that are mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful.

Supply needs and industry demand for cheap, unskilled labor are some of the leading causes of child labor. Specifically, production processes that require certain physical attributes, such as small stature and agility, lead to the employment of children. In addition, price pressures encourage suppliers - especially those at the top of the supply chain - to find the cheapest labor. Poverty leads these children to accept the job, or their parents ask them to work to supplement the family income. These supply and demand factors are reinforced by systemic, structural issues such as lack of access to education, inadequate employment opportunities for the educated, corruption and social stratification.

Today, child labor is present in many industries - from the carpet sector in Afghanistan to the cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast.

International Definition

According to the ILO's Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention, child labor is the enslavement (i.e., sale, trafficking, debt bondage, serfdom, compulsory labor) of anyone under the age of 18. The definition includes the use of children in armed conflict, prostitution and illegal activities such as drug trafficking. Lastly, any work deemed to be harmful to the health, safety or morals of a child is considered to be child labor.

United States' Definition

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 prohibits the employment of minors in "oppressive child labor." Oppressive child labor is the employment of a child under 16 by anyone other than that child's parent(s) or guardian(s). However, the Secretary of Labor permits the employment of individuals between 14 and 16 so long as the work is not in the manufacturing or mining industries and so long as the child's health, well-being and education are not negatively affected. Occupations that are deemed hazardous to the health or well-being of individuals between 16 and 18 years old are also considered to be "oppressive child labor."

Children have always worked in the United States. Child labor was significantly present during industrialization, the Great Depression and the 19th and 20th centuries when a number of poor immigrants migrated to the U.S. Today, American and foreign children who are forced into prostitution, domestic servitude and other forms slavery fall into the child labor category.

Child Sex Trafficking

Around the world, an influx in sex tourism, the insatiable demand for child pornography and greed play key roles in the prevalence of child sex slavery and trafficking. In addition to strangers, family and close friends have been known to sell children off to individuals, businesses and groups involved in the sex industry. Once sold, the children are forced to perform commercial sex acts. In the U.S. and in most countries abroad, any commercial sex with a minor is considered sex trafficking.

These adolescents are chosen by traffickers for different reasons. Although kids from broken families, runaways and poor children are at higher risk of being trafficked, middle and upper class children may also be targeted. Generally, online predators and individuals looking to profit from the sex trade pick children that have certain insecurities and vulnerabilities - someone they can manipulate and dominate. It is through this manipulation and domination that traffickers are able to continuously sell and profit from the children.

The standard price for sex at a brothel in the U.S. is $30. Typically, trafficked children see 25-48 customers a day. They work up to 12 hours a day, every day of the week; every year, a pimp earns between $150,000 and $200,000 per child.

Abuse and indoctrination, mixed with alcohol and drug addiction, enable traffickers to enslave these children for years.

Children still face challenges even when they reach out for help, escape or are rescued. Some survivors of child sex trafficking are, at first, arrested and treated as delinquents. Society prescribed labels for those in the sex industry are often degrading, and children feel as if they can't live a normal life anymore. They might think that they're stuck living a life of prostitution and that they don't have any options. In some cases and in many cultures, children - particularly girls - that have been sexually violated are no longer accepted in their families or communities because they are seen as tainted.

Child sexual slavery and trafficking are connected to other forms of slavery. Children may be forced into domestic servitude and, along the way, are sexually abused by their new family. At times, minors are forced into marrying to give the family financial stability or to pay off a debt.

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Child Labor | Enslavement of Children - End Slavery Now

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Today, more than a quarter of the world's slaves are children. These children are forced to commit commercial sex acts, forced into a system of domestic servitude or employed in occupations that are mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Supply needs and industry demand for cheap, unskilled labor are some of the leading causes of child labor.

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1. Educate yourself on the knowledge and situations of child slavery, known what is is and how it can happen even if it seems like something different

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- Approximately 70% of the world's chocolate is farmed in West Africa, particularly Ghana and the Ivory Coast, and supplied to major companies such as Hershey's and Nestlé.

- Among those in the industry it is well known that some children are sold or abducted from small villages and are forced into working without pay.

- They are beaten for working too slowly or attempting to escape. There are also reports of children and adults being locked in at night so as to prevent escape

- The major chocolate companies have always been aware of the exploitative working conditions and slavery supplying their product. It is only recently now that journalists have brought this to light. Leaders in the chocolate industry are talking about strategies to eventually end the slavery.

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Child slavery is mentally, socially and physically damaging to a young child as young children are ask to work long working hours and the conditions they work in with exposure to chemicals poses risk to their health.

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Children as young as six years old work on cocoa farms under extremely hazardous conditions. Carrying heavy loads, using machetes to clear land and inhaling harmful pesticides are all in a day’s work. Pesticides are commonly used in cocoa growing regions to control bugs and viruses that harm the cocoa plant. In West Africa up to 97percent of farmers use pesticides. Some of these have been found to cause headaches, nausea, diarrhoea, liver and kidney complications and even cancer.

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Children as young as six years old work on cocoa farms under extremely hazardous conditions. Carrying heavy loads, using machetes to clear land and inhaling harmful pesticides are all in a day’s work. Pesticides are commonly used in cocoa growing regions to control bugs and viruses that harm the cocoa plant. In West Africa up to 97percent of farmers use pesticides. Some of these have been found to cause headaches, nausea, diarrhoea, liver and kidney complications and even cancer.

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2. this scenario is illegal but efficient for companies as it is cheap to employ children and to traffic them

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2. this scenario is illegal but efficient for companies as it is cheap to employ children and to traffic them

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- Approximately 70% of the world's chocolate is farmed in West Africa, particularly Ghana and the Ivory Coast, and supplied to major companies such as Hershey's and Nestlé.

- Among those in the industry it is well known that some children are sold or abducted from small villages and are forced into working without pay.

- They are beaten for working too slowly or attempting to escape. There are also reports of children and adults being locked in at night so as to prevent escape

- The major chocolate companies have always been aware of the exploitative working conditions and slavery supplying their product. It is only recently now that journalists have brought this to light. Leaders in the chocolate industry are talking about strategies to eventually end the slavery.

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1. child slavery is damaging to the children who are not able to have an education due to working without pay

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1. child slavery is damaging to the children who are not able to have an education due to working without pay

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The children of Western Africa are surrounded by intense poverty, and most begin working at a young age to help support their families. Other children are “sold” to traffickers or farm owners by their own relatives, who are unaware of the dangerous work environment and the lack of any provisions for an education. Often, traffickers abduct the young children from small villages.

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- Exploits and degrades human beings
- violates human Rights,
- increases unhappiness
- no right to withdrawal

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dignity of the work and rights of workers

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dignity of the work and rights of workers

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Life and dignity of a human person