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FEATURED ARTICLE *** NGOs: gladiators of freedom [PDF] L. Corradini & Asbel López, The UNESCO
Courier, June 2001 unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001227/122747e.pdf#122766 [accessed 30 January 2011] At five in the morning, well
before most children get up to go to school, 12-year-old Abula
sets out on a six-kilometre barefoot trek along a
road made of mud and stone to work on a coffee plantation in Bouafle, Côte d’Ivoire. When he gets there, wet and tired,
the foreman tells him where he is to plant that day. “You have to work fast
because they threaten to punish and starve us if we don’t do the set amount
of work,” he says. “If we can’t work because we’re ill, we risk being
physically tortured. One day I saw them torture two friends of mine who
wanted to escape. Both of them ended up dead.” ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/cote-d'ivoire.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - National armed forces and rebel groups are reported to recruit or
use children in situations of armed conflict, sometimes on a forced
basis. Rebel forces are also reported
to actively recruit child soldiers from refugee camps and other areas in the
western part of the country. Human Rights Reports » 2005 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61565.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – The
country was a source and destination country for trafficking in women and
children from The country's cities and farms
provided ample opportunities for traffickers, especially of children and
women. The informal labor sectors were not regulated under existing labor
laws, so domestics, most non-industrial farm laborers, and those who worked
in the country's wide network of street shops and restaurants remained
outside government protection. Internal trafficking of girls ages 9 to 15 to
work as household domestics in Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/cotedivoire2001.html [accessed 30 January 2011] [55] While noting the efforts
undertaken by the State party within its Plan of Action to fight child
trafficking, the Committee remains deeply concerned at the large number of
child victims of trafficking for the purpose of exploitation in the State
party's agricultural, mining and domestic service sectors and other forms of
exploitation. Chocolate's bittersweet economy Christian Parenti, Fortune
Magazine, February 15 2008 money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/news/international/chocolate_bittersweet.fortune/?postversion=2008021413 [accessed 30 January 2011] Outside the This type of child labor isn't
supposed to exist in Human Trafficking 'Unacceptable’, Says Anne Thomas, Christian Today, March 15, 2007 [accessed 30 January 2011] Nearly half the world's cocoa is
harvested in the "Chocolate manufacturers
promised to end the use of trafficked children in harvesting the cocoa beans
that make our chocolate by 2005," explained a spokesperson from Stop The
Traffik, "but this has not been done. They
have started several worthy initiatives but are not addressing the central
issue of trafficked labour. NGOs: gladiators of freedom [PDF] L. Corradini & Asbel López, The UNESCO
Courier, June 2001 unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001227/122747e.pdf#122766 [accessed 30 January 2011] At five in the morning, well
before most children get up to go to school, 12-year-old Abula
sets out on a six-kilometre barefoot trek along a
road made of mud and stone to work on a coffee plantation in Bouafle, Côte d’Ivoire. When he gets there, wet and tired,
the foreman tells him where he is to plant that day. “You have to work fast
because they threaten to punish and starve us if we don’t do the set amount
of work,” he says. “If we can’t work because we’re ill, we risk being physically
tortured. One day I saw them torture two friends of mine who wanted to
escape. Both of them ended up dead.” Planning Intervention Strategies for Child Laborers in Creative Associates International, Inc., Planning
Intervention Strategies for Child Laborers in www.beps.net/publications/ECACLcotedivoirePlanning2002.pdf [accessed 30 January 2011] [page 47 picture caption]
Eleven of the reported 108 children who were, two years earlier,
brought into Côte d’Ivoire to work on their Marabou’s plantation. The
children receive food and housing. Their only form of education is memorizing
the Koran at night. They have not received any form of wage payment for the
two years since arriving in High human trafficking profits increases practice in Ghana www.modernghana.com/news/124311/1/high-human-trafficking-profits-increases-practice-.html [accessed 30 January 2011] Statistics from the United Nationa’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicated that human
trafficking was rated the World’s third most profitable illicit business
venture apart from drugs and prostitution. Subsequently, the number of
children trafficked from Afram Plains in the
Eastern, Yeji in the Brong
Ahafo, and Atitekpo in
the Volta Regions countries such as The Gambia and Statistics from the United Nationa’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicated that human
trafficking was rated the World’s third most profitable illicit business
venture apart from drugs and prostitution.
Subsequently, the number of children trafficked from Afram Plains in the Eastern, Yeji
in the Brong Ahafo, and Atitekpo in the Volta Regions countries such as The
Gambia and The Protection Project - Côte The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/cote.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Children have been trafficked to
Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7590 [accessed 30 January 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/africa/cote-divoire [accessed 30 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DT545.22 .C66 1990 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/citoc.html [accessed 30 January 2011] How can something so sweet taste so wrong? Athena Sydney www.ritro.com/sections/worldaffairs/story.bv?storyid=0000000002530 [Last access date unavailable] Forty-three percent of the cocoa
used in chocolate comes from UNICEF: Human Trafficking Affects Every Country in PolitInfo, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] The study describes trafficking as
a dynamic phenomenon that can change from day to day depending on the
changing circumstances of a country. Mr. Rossi says that for example, before
the civil uprising in Drissa's Story and the Origins of Slavery
in 2003 dillpill.deviantart.com/journal/1110784/ [accessed 30 January 2011] DRISSA'S STORY - Once in Korhogo,
in the On the plantation the work is
hard. In oppressive heat, with biting flies around their heads and snakes in
the undergrowth, the slaves worked from dawn till dusk tending and collecting
the cocoa pods. Often given only braised banana to eat for months at a time,
they developed vitamin deficiencies. Weak from hunger they staggered under
great sacks of cocoa pods. If they slowed in their work, they were beaten. 'Chocolate Slaves' Carry Many Scars Neil Tweedie, The Daily
Telegraph, April 17, 2001 www.vachss.com/help_text/archive/chocolate_slaves.html [accessed 30 January 2011] Drissa is a child but does not care for
chocolate so much. He still carries the marks of his time harvesting the
cocoa beans from vast plantations of cacao trees in the Labor Group Demands US Ban On Imported Elizabeth Price, Dow Jones Newswires, May 31, 2002 www.thecalamityhowler.com/agbiz/166.htm [accessed 20 April
2012] [scroll down] A labor-rights group is
threatening legal action to require the "Child slaves are used on
cocoa plantations all over ( Slaves to chocolate: thousands of boys toil on Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication, www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-85103768.html [partially accessed 30 January 2011 - access restricted] Aly Diabate,
from the country of Child Slaves Caught in Glittering Traps Corinna Schuler, National Post, 4/17/01 www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/childslaves.html [accessed 30 January 2011] Moumouni, 14 at the time, and his
16-year-old brother had left the village with dreams of paid employment and
possessions their impoverished parents could not provide: a bike and a pair
of American jeans. "Then, come
on," Solo beckoned. "I'll take you to someone who will give you a
job. You won't even have to pay for transportation." The next day, the Sylla
brothers found themselves captive in a windowless hut -- caught in the web of
smugglers who coax unknown numbers of young people out of impoverished Traffickers target boys in cocoa trade - Enslavement
nearly hidden as children taken to work on Sudarsan Raghavan,
Knight Ridder Newspapers, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] Businessmen called "locateurs" wait in the little bus station in this
large border town, where crammed mini-buses leave for The dusty alley behind the bus
station is brimming with vendors selling everything from food to cigarettes.
There are cobblers and shanty kiosks selling bootleg tapes of West African
pop music. Chickens and goats abound, and dust mingles with the scent of raw
meat. There also is a dark warehouse
with blackened walls and a thick wooden door covered with tin sheeting that
locks from the outside. Malian officials say slave traders sometimes keep
their young victims here overnight so they can't escape. At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] According to the ILO, the best
defense against the sale of children is to have local NGOs educate villagers
about what really happens to their children, and to step up enforcement of
laws that make recruiting and enslaving children a crime. Scandal of From the Files of The Daily Mail, 2001 listas.cev.org.br/cevleis/2001-11/msg00142.html [accessed 30 January 2011] SCANDAL OF Child Labour Persists Around The World: More Than 13
Percent Of Children 10-14 Are Employed International Labour Organisation (ILO) News, www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/news/WCMS_008058/lang--en/index.htm [accessed 4 September 2011] "Today's child worker will be
tomorrow's uneducated and untrained adult, forever trapped in grinding poverty.
No effort should be spared to break that vicious circle", says ILO
Director-General Michel Hansenne. Among the countries with a high
percentage of their children from 10-14 years in the work force are: Mali,
54.5 percent; Burkina Faso, 51; Niger and Uganda, both 45; Kenya, 41.3;
Senegal, 31.4; Bangladesh, 30.1; Nigeria, 25.8; Haiti, 25; Turkey, 24; Côte d'Ivoire, 20.5; Pakistan, 17.7;
Brazil, 16.1; India, 14.4; China, 11.6; and Egypt, 11.2. All material used herein reproduced under the
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