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That number of children is significant, representing 43 percent of all children living in agricultural households in cocoa growing areas. During the same period cocoa production in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana increased 62 percent while the prevalence of child labour in cocoa production among all agricultural households increased 14 percentage points.
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.
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.
Swiss labor rights group Solidar Suisse has released a video calling out George Clooney for endorsing Nespresso, a Nestle coffee company that reportedly exploits workers toiling under "slave-like ...
The company has been associated with various controversies, facing criticism and boycotts over its marketing of baby formula as an alternative to breastfeeding in developing countries (where clean water may be scarce), its reliance on child labour in cocoa production, and its production and promotion of bottled water.
In 2005, after the cocoa industry had not met the Harkin–Engel Protocol deadline for certifying that the worst forms of child labour (according to the International Labour Organization's Convention 182) had been eliminated from cocoa production, the International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit in 2005 under the Alien Tort Claims Act ...
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Barnett’s documentary for Dispatches, "Starbucks & Nespresso: The Truth About Your Coffee", investigated child labour in Guatemalan coffee farms. [12] won the 2020 Association for International Broadcasting’s Politics and Business award [13] and was shortlisted for the 2020 British Journalism Awards.