Its February and its the time of the year to show LOVE, AFFECTION, SINCERITY.
Do you actually know Child Slavery is part of the main ingredient for your Chocolate?
Children are trafficked, smuggled, sold across borders in West Africa to cocoa plantation owners and never to return home. They are barely fed, sleeps in storage house, work 70-100 hours per week, beaten to work, not a penny being paid, tortured if they attempt to run away. They are to carry up to 40kg of cocoa harvest – all these for YOUR Chocolate.
But big corp. use effective marketing to Conceal and Hide the truth. Customer unknowingly consume TAINED Chocolate. No Right Human would reject their own HUMAN RIGHT.
You dont have to eat the chocalate to feel sick
In support of Stop-the-Traffik and Child slavery (myself),this blog is to spread the voice.
Ten years ago the chocolate industry signed the “Harkin-Engel Protocol”, a promise to eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour (including trafficking and hazardous work) in the cocoa sector of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, where two thirds of the world’s cocoa is grown.
An estimated 1.8 million children work on the small cocoa farms in these countries, growing and harvesting the core ingredient of the chocolate we eat. Many of these are working under what is know as the Worst Forms of Child Labour, which includes trafficking, slave-like conditions, and hazardous work.
In the same period as the Harkin Engel Protocol has been in effect, from 2001 to 2011, the global revenue from cocoa products was an estimated USD 1 trillion. That’s $1.000.000.000.000. The cocoa industry therefore certainly has the financial means to tackle the problem.
However, none of the Protocol’s six articles calling for action were fully implemented, and the required industry-wide change in the cocoa sector has not taken place. The promise still hasn’t been met.
10 Campaign is an informal worldwide coalition of major civil society organizations working in sustainable chocolate.
Chocolate shouldn't cost a children life
Their partners include STOP THE TRAFFIK, International Labor Rights Forum, World Vision Australia, Fairfood International, Stop Child Labour – School is the best workplace, Südwind Research Institute, Berne Declaration, FNV Bondgenoten and the Confédération Syndicale Burkinabé, as well as various individuals with extensive experience in sustainable cocoa.
Girls its time to munch up on chocolates. Guys, valentine is good reason for you to buy chocolate. But please support fair trade, and READ the description before you savour your chocalate.
