70% of the world's cocoa is produced in West Africa, where many farms employ children that are trafficked and forced to work in conditions akin to slavery.
THE PROBLEM
- 10 YEARS ago the biggest chocolate companies promised to get rid of child trafficking in the cocoa industry in West Africa.
- 10 YEARS on, despite their promises, we only have a tiny amount of Traffik Free chocolate.
- 10 YEARS have earned the cocoa industry £600 billion. Only 0.0075% of this has been invested into improving working conditions in West Africa.
TAKE ACTION
Promises can be broken - we need laws that must be kept - let's get governments around the world to pass laws that bring an end to the trafficking of
children in the chocolate industry.
This is part of the Ten Campaign, a joint global initiative marking the 10th anniversary of the Harkin-Engel Protocol to eliminate
worst forms of child labour in the cocoa industry www.10campaign.com