Chocolate and Child Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of the Cocoa Industry International Labor Rights Fund June 30‚ 2004 It is estimated that America spends $13 billion a year on chocolate. However‚ in the past few years‚ it has become increasingly clear that this favorite American product is tainted with the labor of innocent young children. The fact that child slaves are used in the harvesting of cocoa beans in Cote D’Ivoire‚ the world’s major supplier of cocoa‚ is undisputed. The US State
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jcc18schrage.qx 4/7/05 5:43 pm Page 99 The Cocoa Industry and Child Labour* Elliot J. Schrage Council on Foreign Relations‚ USA Anthony P. Ewing Columbia University‚ USA Reports of forced child labour on the cocoa farms of Côte d’Ivoire surfaced in 2000 and quickly became an important business issue for a number of prominent companies. Media coverage and the threat of regulatory action mobilised the international cocoa industry to collaborate with other stakeholders to eliminate the
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PEST ANALYSIS The pest analysis refers to four main factors: POLITICAL ECONOMICAL SOCIAL TECHNOLOGICAL The analysis will focus towards the industry that how the political stability‚ rules and regulation‚ and the legal system of the country affecting the overall industry. The economic condition‚ liberalization‚ policy toward foreign investment‚ and growth rate of the economy as a whole also help to analyze the overall industry attractiveness and potential for the growth. The social
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Introduction The forced labour of children in the Ivorian cocoa farms is at a distance from the glamourised candy producers such as Mars and Nestlé‚ and a universe away from the day-to-day consumers of chocolate. That such a quixotic market shares a commonality with the more exposed diamond market‚ for example‚ whose implication in the sale and involvement of guns in tribal cleansing has long been documented‚ drives home the reminder that our modern prosperity
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MSGL 502 Ethics and Leadership An Ethical look into Slavery in the Chocolate Industry People around the world share a love of chocolate‚ one of the most delicious and pleasurable foods on earth. However‚ thousands of Africa’s children are modern-day slaves‚ bonded to their employers and forced against their will to work in hazardous and heartbreaking conditions. Slavery in the chocolate industry has been widely publicized through the years. The face of enslaved children has been the
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The Tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in theworld. The World Travel and Tourism Council estimates that in 2004Travel and tourism is expected to generate* US$ 5‚490.4 billion of economic activity* 10.4% of total GDP* 214‚697‚000 jobs or 8.1% of total employment* 12.2% of total exports [1]My task is to conduct a PEST analysis for a company within the Tourismindustry. Within the tourism industry‚ I have to select one area of interestlike transportation‚ accommodation and transportation
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry What a systematic‚ corporate‚ an individual and ethical issues raised by this case? The systematic ethical issues raised by this case include economical‚ political‚ and legal questions. Let us first look at the economical repercussions. Would it be economically logical not to do any business with these countries? The answer is no‚ considering close to half of the world’s chocolate is made from the cocoa beans that are grown in the Ivory Coast and Ghana
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should have personnel able to visit at least 2 times per year each registered farm for ensure the welfare of the children or at least that they are been treated with human conditions that don’t put in risk his life. The company’s members of the Chocolate Manufacturers Association are big and renowned companies with high earnings‚ so I think that they should use part of its money to this cause if they want to have access to these producers. 2. In your view‚ is the kind of child slavery discussed
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these slaves and publicized these events in the year 2000 however there was no impact of this documentary. The reason for this was later revealed to be the fact that the African government‚ African farmers‚ American chocolate Companies‚ Distributers‚ Consumers and most importantly Chocolate manufacturer association knew already knew about this issue but did nothing to rectify the situation. 2. Economically speaking‚ the price of cocoa beans declined by about 25% between the years 1996 and 2000. This
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Chocolate is a product of the cacao bean which grows primarily in the tropical climates of West Africa and Latin America. The cacao bean is more commonly referred to as cocoa‚ so that is the term we will use throughout. Two West African countries‚ Ghana and the Ivory Coast‚ supply 75% of the world’s cocoa market.[1] The cocoa they grow and harvest is sold to a variety of chocolate companies‚ including some of the largest in the world. In recent years‚ a handful
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