Child Labour in West Africa

As an adult we do our best to provide our children with opportunities to live a better life than our lives. However, in West Africa, "1.8 million children" are deprived of the basic right to attend school, but they are employed so that they can help their families with basic needs It is estimated to be. Many times these children are dangerous or slavery, working 60 hours a week. Infringement of the fundamental human rights of many of these children

Currently, the industry which is essentially related to child labor in West Africa is cocoa. Since the series of attacks more than a decade ago, the chocolate industry has been working on eradicating widespread child labor in West African farms. Although the slavery of chocolate children reported that children worked dangerously in cocoa farms in West Africa for more than 10 years, cross-cutting efforts such as the International Cocoa Initiative is a chocolate company's solution I am looking for

Child labor, child trading and slavery are common in the West African cocoa industry. Increased exercise heightens awareness of child labor abuse. Most consumers are resisting chocolate fabric products to increase public awareness of child labor abuse. 70% of the cocoa beans are produced in West Africa, especially Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon, which are the major producer and exporter of cocoa (Antislavery Report, 2004). In 1998, the ILO revealed that child slavery was held in Cocoa (Rawfoodinfo, 2008). UNICEF reports in Ghana that more than 200,000 children are sold as slaves (Global Exchange, 2006). As these events have been revealed, international civil society organizations, governments and the cocoa industry are aware of the need to work on child labor issues and implement initiatives