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Act now to end child slavery in the chocolate industry

Categories: Articles:Human Rights | Published: 27/04/2011 | Views: 1430
This Easter, much of the chocolate we enjoyed may be tainted by child slavery.
Anti-Slavery International’s latest research shows the continuation of child trafficking, a form of modern slavery, to cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast, which produces almost 40% of the world’s cocoa. Instead of going to school young boys are forced to spend long days hacking open cocoa pods with machetes, handling dangerous pesticides and carrying heavy loads - work that is deemed extremely hazardous, can lead to injury and ill-health, and that no young child should have to do.

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