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Further Links on child labour in the cocoa and chocolate sector

Articles on child labour

  • Children in the cocoa production, in Wikipedia
  • Payson Center, yearly reports on the Harkin-Engel protocol
  • AFL-CIO: Union Action on Child labour in cocoa: reverse Trick-or-Treaters call: Attention to Child labour in Cocoa Fields, 16.10.2010
  • A Union of Professionals - American Federation of Teachers (AFT): Child Labour in Cocoa Production
  • Fair Trade Association Australia and New Zealand: tackling child labour in the chocolate industry: What role can Fairtrade play?
  • The Age, Australia: Bitter Life of Chocolate's Child slaves, 04.11.2007
  • Organic Consumer Association, USA: Slave Chocolate, 24.04.2006

Broad campaigns against Child labour

  • ILRF: Stop Child & Forced Labor Cocoa Campaign
  • International Initiative to End Child Labour

Further articles

  • BBC News: Child cocoa workers still "exploited", 02.04.2007
  • CNN: Chocolate's Bittersweet Economy, 15.02.2008
  • Child labour in West African Cocoa Production: Issues and U.S. Policy, Congressional Research Service - The Library of Congress

 TV Reports and movies on Child Labour

  • BBC Panorama: Cocoa slave tastes sweet freedom, (trailer 3,38 minutes)
  • Canvas, Belgium: The dark side of chocolate (short trailer 1.36 minutes) and Bittere chocolade (short trailer 0.28 minutes)
  • Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), Switzerland: Die dunkle Seite des Schokoladegenusses, "Kassensturz", 01.12.2009 (TV trailer 12.28 minutes)
  • The Netherlands (Llink, War Zone, TV report, 55.44 minutes)