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It encompasses 29 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites and 5 contributing structures. The district includes an orphanage owned by the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina and constructed from 1914 to 1959. Located in the district is the separately listed Federal style Cedar Dell plantation home. Other contributing resources are ...
The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks several chocolate company representatives whether they are aware of child labour in cocoa farms. In Mali , the film shows that children, having been promised paid work, are taken to towns near the border such as Zégoua , from where another trafficker transports the children over ...
In 2001, the report A Taste of Slavery: How Your Chocolate May be Tainted won a George Polk Award.In it were claims that traffickers promised paid work, housing, and education to children who were forced to labour and undergo severe abuse, that some children were held forcibly on farms and worked up to 100 hours per week, and that attempted escapees were beaten.
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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.
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Case Farms donated $20,000 to the Children’s Hope Alliance, a nonprofit with a long history of child advocacy and welfare. Case Farms donates more than 250 therapy hours to North Carolina ...
International CoCoa Farmers Organization; Abbreviation: ICCFO: Formation: 4 December 2014 () Type: non-profit: Purpose: To be the voice of cocoa farmer and defend cocoa farmers interest worldwide. Support members to eradicate child and forced labor in their profession, and promote sustainable cocoa farming and safeguard nature. Location