Child Labor And Slavery In The Chocolate Industry

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There is a boy who is a member of child soldiers of Muslim Seleka because he thought it was the best way to earn money. He said that he killed a lot of people with no ideas and he sold weapon that was AK47 which was used to kill people(Smith). As one kinds of child labour, child soldiers& problems is very harsh for children to bear. Also there are children who work in cacao farm, because he is a salve of mister, who is manage on the cacao farm. They star to labor on 6A.M. and end in the evening, they cut the bean pods from the trees and move the pods. pod weight 100 pond, some of pos are taller then a child who works in cacap farm. In addition, when they did not hurry, they were beaten. (Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry) So, …show more content…
as previously stated, child soldier is a kind of child labour, it&s problems are very serious. The biggest peoblem in Affrica child is that they are difficult to escape the labour. In addition, child who labor in a developing country , their seconde generation is more likely to suffering labour, too. And they are growing up in a bad environment. For exampe, In Kazahstan, five child migrant tobacco workers under age 18. Cultivation of tobacco is manual work it is cultivated by children. It is very dangerous to cultivate tobacco. When children pick tobacco leaves, they expose to pesticides and green tobacco sickness (GTS). and they are cause by absorption. And In Mail, over 150 people, including 41 children working in mining areas (24 boys and 17 girls). children in mortal danger. they mix mercury with ore to create gold, and Mercurial poisoning can cause people to die.(Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry) . Because of including poverty, limited access to education, repression of workers& rights, and limited prohibitions on child labor(michael herring). they cannot escape labour like the past …show more content…
And every people have right to educated. There are many law of human original righr of education. For exampel, Article 26 of the Univeral Delaration of Humman Rights, Articles 13 &14 of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural righrs and so on. (Social Rights Initiative). Despite is law of child labour, the 17 milion will never attend school(Economy). World orgazination have to strengthen this law and punish people who force child to labor in illegal severly. A this time, education does not mean the skill to do labour, that mean quality education worldwidely. Children are also feature’s manpower human resources, and illegal child labour is occur in a develop country, like Africa. So, If chilren are educatied children can earn money by the adequate way and their country can develop effectively. In addition, most developing country have high birth rate. Top 3 of highest birth rate country is Niger, Mali and Uganda wich are located in Africa, and these 3 country are developing country. Niger is world 141, Mali is 128 ranking in rich country. If educatied child go society, the economy of these country wil get rich. If so, the government can support child’s education, and child who born in these country can educate more quantitatively as well as qualitatively

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