CHILD LABOR AND SLAVERY IN THE CHOCOLATE INDUSTRY
Over one in five children in Africa is compelled to work in mines, quarries, and farms. Any business does not want child labour in its supply chain. However, with an estimated 168 million children working in some capacity worldwide, including 12 million in manufacturing and industry and 98 million in agriculture, it is an unsettling reality of the globalisation of commodities that corporations cannot afford to ignore. Reading the most recent annual report on products created with child labour from the US Department of Labor is disturbing. The research claims that child labour is still used to produce many of…