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Forced child labor, human trafficking and rape are common".
In 2001, they created a multi-sectoral partnership, the Cocoa Protocol, to address the conditions that perpetuate forced child labor on these cacao plantations.
Grist: To protest chocolate companies' continued use of cacao from countries that use forced child labor, Reverse Trick or Treaters will hand Fair Trade chocolates back to adults.
These efforts are beginning to address the supply-side factors that can perpetuate forced child labor in the cocoa sector, while pushing cocoa processors and manufacturers on the demand side to stop procuring cacao from farms where forced child labor exists.
A Customs officer based at the United States Embassy in Beijing determined after an on-site investigation that the factory used forced child labor on its assembly line.
To read: At Grist, Claire Thompson investigates ties between Halloween candy and forced child labor in the Ivory Coast, while suggesting ways to trick-or-treat responsibly this year.
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Janvier's group has helped FTS document widespread slavery in mining communities in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - including forced labor, child labor, sex slavery, forced marriage and child soldiering (see research reports here).
That happened in November, when the farmworkers' group, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, a trade association, completed details of a code of conduct that included not only the wage improvement but also guarantees of increased workplace protections — like minimum-wage guarantees and a zero tolerance policy on forced and child labor — for the laborers.
"There is international pressure now regarding forced labor, child labor," Thein Myint says firmly.
According to the most recent report, monitors found no forced labor, child labor or discrimination problems at 61 factories they visited.
According to a recent report by the Center for Research on Multinational Corporations, a Dutch nonprofit organization, and the India Committee of the Netherlands, forced labor, child labor and poor working conditions are common in Indian garment factories.
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