Child Trafficking
Slave labor and child trafficking are commonplace in cocoa industry in the Ivory Coast, and the makers of the documentary The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010) found them working as slaves everywhere on the cocoa plantations there. Even though the largest chocolate companies in the world, including Nestle, Archer Daniels and Cargill signed a protocol with the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2001 that mandated the end of child labor and trafficking by 2008, this has not occurred. Nestle and these other giant multinational corporations denied any knowledge of these practices or any control over slave labor on these Ivory Coast plantations, but they did not wish t see the evidence in the film. Interpol knew about these practices because it has railed the plantations and rescued dozens of children from slavery, even though the government of the Ivory Coast and the cocoa exporters denied that child trafficking was occurring. Altogether, this film revealed a general indifference and callousness at high levels of governments and corporations to the fact...
It is not a question of passing more laws, since child labor and slave labor are already against international law as well as they laws of the Ivory Coast. In reality, though, these laws are simply not being enforced in any meaningful way.
This was a tremendously powerful documentary, often made by undercover filmmakers, who revealed how children as young as age seven are kidnapped or purchased in poor nations like Mali and them sold to plantations in the Ivory Coast. At a bus station in Mali, they actually had hidden camera footage of traffickers on motorcycles surrounded children and then smuggling across the border into the Ivory Coast. One village chief told the filmmakers that 130 children had literally been kidnapped off the roads and sold into slavery, although in other cases desperately poor parents are selling their own children. Bus drivers and business owners in the border towns described how children were…
Child Sex Trafficking: Sex trafficking is basically defined as the enlisting, harboring, provision, moving, or acquisition of an individual for the main goal of a commercial sex act. In this case, an individual who has not attained 18 years old is forced or coerced to perform sexual acts. Generally, a person is forced or coerced for the purpose of debt bondage, involuntary servitude, or slavery. In the past few years, child
Child Sex Tourism Consent in human trafficking Child prostitution Bias in the application of police discretion Failure to identify the victim in human trafficking Push and Pull Factors What theories explain trafficking in India Measures to control Prevention measures Investigations / Prosecutions India is regarded as the one of the source, transit, and a destination country for the bonded labor and child sex trafficking. The ranking of the country has been Tier 2 W. since 2005 and stayed constant until
Therefore, although the current analysis took into consideration three of the most important countries in the world, they do not lack the problems facing each country because everywhere in the world there are poor areas and low income families who will abuse their children, will abandon them, and even torture them according to their own religious or personal beliefs. Taking these aspects into consideration, it is important to consider
NGOs intervention on Child slavery - labor abuse Child labor and slavery is a global problem that has raised concern among various agencies and bodies of governments in different countries. Global organizations like WTO, ILO and GATT among others have prohibited its members from any forms of child labor and encouraged them to take proactive measures towards curbing the vice. With the direct and indirect pressure from these global organizations, there
Child Labor Define child and labor separately. Child labor in the United States has long been a subject of concern. The U.S. enacted strict child labor statutes in 1938 (Labor, 2009), and has continued to enforce that law. However, there remain problems at home in the U.S. And abroad. The United States seeks to enforce the law, but there are times when it is difficult to catch perpetrators of violations. However, the
Child Pornography Annotated Bibliography Crofts, T and Lee, M. (2008). 'Sexting', Children and Child Pornography'. Journal of Criminology. Vol 35:85 This article focuses on the practice of children using the new media like YouTube, Facebook and Myspace to distribute the sexually explicit images known as 'sexting'. The authors have discussed the issues considering the legal frameworks and blamed the current laws for child exploitation. They point out the inability of the current legislation