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In 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report on labour conditions around the world [53] in which a List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor mentioned five countries where the cocoa industry used child labour, and two countries where the cocoa industry used child labour and forced labour. [54]
Boy collecting cocoa after beans have dried. The Harkin–Engel Protocol, [a] sometimes referred to as the Cocoa Protocol, is an international agreement aimed at ending the worst forms of child labor (according to the International Labour Organization's Convention 182) and forced labor (according to ILO Convention 29) in the production of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate.
The Harkin-Engel Protocol promised to end the use of child labour. [13] When confronted with this issue, corporate representatives denied all rumors of child labor and trafficking, but the investigations of the filmmakers brought to light the continued widespread use of trafficked child slaves on cocoa plantations.
U.S. customs authorities have asked cocoa traders to report where and when they encounter child labour in their supply chains in top grower Ivory Coast, three industry sources said, following ...
The use of child labour on cocoa farms in top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana has risen over the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, according to a draft of a U.S. government ...
The International Cocoa Initiative involving major cocoa manufacturers established the Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System intended to monitor thousands of farms in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire for child labor conditions, [158] [157] but the program reached less than 20% of the child laborers. [160]
Trump appears to insult workers at the BMW and Mercedes plants in South Carolina. ‘We could have our child do it.’ Trump appears to throw shade at BMW, Mercedes workers in SC
Executive Order 13126, formally titled Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor, [1] is an executive order signed by Bill Clinton on June 12, 1999, to ensure federal agencies enforce laws regarding forced labor. [2]