There are approximately 790,000 children working in cocoa production in Ivory Coast alone
THE SWEETEST chocolate can come from the most bitter of sources. In May police in Ivory Coast rescued 68 children working on cocoa farms, allegedly trafficked in from neighbouring Burkina Faso. They are a tiny share of the approximately 790,000 children working in cocoa production in Ivory Coast alone.
Although there was both an absolute and a relative decline in the number of children aged 12-17 in work globally between 2016 and 2020, the number of children aged 5-11 in work increased by 16.8m. Over 75% of them toiled away on farms or in family businesses. More boys were put to work than girls, and children in rural areas were three times more likely to work than those in urban areas. Of the 160m children in work, nearly half are in jobs likely to be dangerous.
Policies that could help to reduce the number of children in work, such as the Harkin-Engel protocol, a voluntary agreement signed by cocoa manufacturers designed to tackle the worst forms of child labour in the industry, are not being implemented quickly or effectively enough to bring down the numbers. Covid-19 made things worse, because schools shut down and poverty worsened.
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