Fourteen years ago the world's
largest chocolate producers signed
the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an
agreement intended to wipe out
the use of child labor in chocolate
production.
If carried out completely, that
agreement stood to make a big
difference for the children of the
West African nation of the Ivory
Coast, from which flows 40
percent of global cocoa production.
But from border towns in neighboring
countries, via bus and motorcycles
speeding down back roads, slave
traders are on the move, and selling
boys and girls. Each swing of the
child slaves' machetes benefits the
bottom line of the world's largest
chocolate companies. Despite
signing the Henkin-Engel Protocol,
in 2010 the big chocolate companies
said they were not responsible for
maintaining labor standards as they
outsource most of the cocoa
production process.
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