Child slavery and chocolate: All too easy to find
In "Chocolate's Child Slaves," CNN's David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory Coast to investigate children working in the cocoa fields. (More information and air times on CNN International.) By David McKenzie and Brent Swails, CNN Daloa, Ivory Coast (CNN) - Chocolate’s billion-dollar industry starts with workers like Abdul. He squats with a gang of a dozen harvesters on an Ivory Coast farm. Abdul holds the yellow cocoa pod lengthwise and gives it two quick cracks, snapping it open to reveal milky white cocoa beans. Abdul is 10 years old, a three-year veteran of the job. He has never tasted chocolate. During the course of an investigation for CNN’s Freedom Project initiative - an investigation that went deep into the cocoa fields of Ivory Coast - a team of CNN journalists found that child labor, trafficking and slavery are rife in an industry that produces some of the world’s best-known brands. It was not supposed to be this way. More about the Harkin-Engel Protocol It didn’t.
Free2Work: End Human Trafficking and Slavery
Child Labor in the Middle East - Modern Day Slavery
Your are absolutely going to be stunned. We are making a huge amount of children work for long hours under terrible condition for little payment or no payment. It's hard to believe but those beautiful carpets that we have at home, are made by poor children in Western countries; such as, Pakistan and India. Hundreds of children are forced to work in carpet industy for taking care of their parents or some of them were kidnapped and thrown into this horrific place. HOW are they caught??? These children are kidnaped to the industry after their mother's agreement mostly and when they are asked where their children have gone, they would answer "Their children have left with labor contracters who promised good jobs in the Persian Gulf. WHAT's going on??? The caught children would be locked in a room and given no food until they agree to weave on the looms. Emancipation Proclamation: By the most powerful president of India: Takaka Inadia Here is the map for India and Pakistan.
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Cotton Campaign: Stop Forced and Child Labour in Uzbekistan!
Slavery in the Chocolate Industry | Food Empowerment Project
Chocolate is a product of the cacao bean, which grows primarily in the tropical climates of Western Africa, Asia, and Latin America.[1] The cacao bean is more commonly referred to as cocoa, so that is the term that will be used throughout this article. Western African countries, mostly Ghana and the Ivory Coast,[2] supply more than 70% of the world’s cocoa.[1] The cocoa they grow and harvest is sold to a majority of chocolate companies, including the largest in the world.[3] In recent years, a handful of organizations and journalists have exposed the widespread use of child labor, and in some cases slavery, on cocoa farms in Western Africa.[4][5] Since then, the industry has become increasingly secretive, making it difficult for reporters to not only access farms where human rights violations still occur, but to then disseminate this information to the public. The Worst Forms of Child Labor Slavery Is Slave-free Chocolate Possible? Are the Labels on Chocolate Meaningful? Recommendations
Apple’s own data reveal 120,000 supply-chain employees worked excessive hours in November
To its credit, Apple is now posting monthly information tracking the extent to which employees in its supply chain are working less than its standard of 60 hours per week. The introductory language to this information states: “Ending the industry practice of excessive overtime is a top priority for Apple in 2012.” The accompanying graph itself, however, contains data from Jan. 2012 through Nov. 2012 and suggests otherwise. Apple’s code of supplier conduct sets a maximum work week of 60 hours, with an exception clause, discussed below. In Jan. 2012, about 16 percent of the workers in Apple’s supply chain worked more hours than Apple’s maximum standard. This evidence is consistent with independent reports on production at Apple. Apple may very well respond that compliance has fallen recently, but that it is a peak period in which workers have chosen to work more hours voluntarily. In September, October, and November, 10 to 12 percent of supply chain employees worked excessive hours.
'Intergalactic Nemesis': From Radio To Page To Stage
hide captionA Multimedia Production: The performance of The Intergalactic Nemesis involves (from left to right) three voice actors, a foley artist, a keyboardist and, overhead, art from the graphic novel on screen. Intergalactic Nemesis/The Robot Planet What began in the 1990s as a traditional radio play at a coffee shop in Austin, Texas, has morphed from a radio play, to a graphic novel, to a live performance. The Intergalactic Nemesis is now traveling around the country with three actors, one foley artist, one keyboardist and 1,200 graphic novel images. Audiences show up not quite sure what to expect — but they often leave smiling. To set the stage: It's 1933, there's a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, an evil hypnotist, a time-traveling librarian and alien sludge monsters. YouTube Recorded at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas, in July 2011 Eventually the Intergalactic Nemesis crew teamed up with a graphic artist. Chris Gibson plays nine characters in the show.
Scottish power: rich in green energy but light on green revenues | Politics
So Scotland could be the Saudi Arabia of renewables. It has natural energy resources the envy of Europe, with 25% of the EU's offshore wind and tidal power potential and 10% of its wave power potential, and some 90% of the UK's hydro capacity. Alex Salmond was keen to stress how significant those resources could be for Scotland, and for his case for independence, when he addressed the Bloomberg Future of Energy Summit in New York on Tuesday: Our energy resources can power much of Europe; our energy innovation can power the world. It's a time for Scotland - working with nations and companies from across the planet – to become the intellectual powerhouse of green energy. But does that mean Scotland's citizen will enjoy the luxuries of a Saudi prince, fat on the revenues and proceeds of that natural bonanza? While Scotland wind and wave resources are amongst the richest in the world, the tax take is not. That means the Saudi Arabia analogy can only be stretched so far.
