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Child Labor

Cocoa

Indu$try

Media & (In)Equality

(How it Relates to our Class)

Child Labor in the

Chocolate Industry

Fair

=

Trade

HERSHEY'S

Chocolate

Action!

Child Labor in the Chocolate Industry

Hershey, PA

Elsah, IL

Harkin-Engel Protocol

“Raise the Bar, Hershey!”

Eliminate the worst forms of child and forced labor from their source of cocoa farms by July 2005.

2012 - Rainforest Alliance cocoa for its Bliss and Dagoba chocolate products

DON'T STOP!

Planning to source 100% certified cocoa by 2020

Certify 50 percent of its cocoa-growing areas in the Ivory Coast and Ghana by July 1, 2008.

*Media

*Research

*Documentary Screening

*Petitions

Sources:

"Child Labour." International Labour Organization. International Labour

Organization, n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2013. <http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/child-labour/lang--en/index.htm#a2>.

"Home." Slave Free Chocolate. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2013.

<http://www.slavefreechocolate.org/>.

Patriana, Zarah. "Hershey’s and Fair Trade: Is it a Victory?" Global Exchange.

Global Exchange, 7 May 2013. Web. 16 Nov. 2013.

<http://www.globalexchange.org/blogs/fairtrade/2013/05/07/

hersheys-and-fair-trade-is-it-a-victory/>.

"Still Time to Raise the Bar: The Real Corporate Social Responsibility Report

for the Hershey Company." Labor Rights. N.p., Sept. 2011. Web. 21 Nov.

2013. <http://www.laborrights.org/sites/default/files/

publications-and-resources/HersheyReport2011_0.pdf>.

Trade

=

(In)Equality

Fair

*Fair Trade USA's new labeling policy = main ingredient certified

In Gender Paradigms we talk about the importance of equality. Raising awareness about this issue begins to bring equality to children and farmers around the world!

*Competition for the brands that are 100% fair trade certified, such as Alter Ego and Equal Exchange, may be hard because they face less expensive “fair trade” products that are only 32% fair trade.

*People don’t see a difference, they will chose to buy the cheaper chocolate

Media

In Gender Paradigms we talk a lot about how the media influences us, and how it can even give false information

"Fair Trade is doing more to combat child labor than other certifications so we as consumers must continue to push for even more purchases of Fair Trade Certified cocoa."

How others respond

Ivory Coast

Ghana

*West Africa produces about 70% of the world's cocoa

*Most cocoa farmers in West Africa earn between $2-$4 a day.

*They struggle to meet basic needs, they are barely literate, they live in mud huts or tin roofed shacks, and they eat subsistence crops.

* 5 to 6 million cocoa farmers world wide

*Cocoa growing regions: Africa, Asia, Central America, South America (all within 20 degrees of the equator)

*The avg. high temperature equals about 90° during prime growing season.

“One sack [of unfinished beans] (138 pounds) earns a Ghanaian farmer about $106, but can flavor more than 100 pounds of candy..[in other words]...Ghanaian cocoa farmers are getting about 77 cents per pound, where a high-end maker selling 2 ounce chocolate bars for $9 apiece earns $72 per pound.”

It needs to be fair....

171 million out of 246 million children have worked in either hazardous conditions, or conditions which were detrimental to their physical or mental health, and moral development.

In 2000, the International Labor Organization estimated that 246 million child workers aged 5-17 were involved in child labor.

Girls represented about 46% of child laborers in the world. About 53 million girls had taken part in the hazardous section of child labor (the worst form).

Global number of children in child labor has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children. More than half of them, 85 million, are in hazardous work

Agriculture remains by far the most important sector where child laborers can be found (98 million, or 59%),

Asia and the Pacific still has the largest numbers (almost 78 million or 9.3% of child population), but Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region with the highest incidence of child labor (59 million, over 21%).

-Child Labor is a global issue

-Ignorant Consumers

-Child labor (& trafficking) in the cocoa industry

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