Posts Tagged ‘Child Labour’
Buying Chocolate at Halloween
Love it or hate it, Halloween certainly has picked up momentum in Australia. As chocolate sales go through the roof, here is a stark reminder that as Halloween is celebrated it could be at the cost of child labour in cocoa fields in places such as West Africa! How do you know if your Halloween…
Read MoreAlarming Rise in Global Slavery
A new document produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Walk Free and the International Office for Migration (IOM) highlights an alarming increase in the number of people experiencing forced labour and forced marriage on any one day. Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage puts this figure at just on 50…
Read MoreStop Trafficking – September 2022
The September 2022 issue of Stop Trafficking! highlights some excerpts from the 2022 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Articles in this issue include: Models of Survivor Engagement, State Sponsored Human Trafficking, Forced Labour: the Hidden Cost of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, The Climate Crisis: Exacerbating Vulnerabilities, Forced Labour and the Clean Energy Trasnsition. At…
Read MoreFairtrade Sports Balls
The September page of the 2022 ACRATH Calendar encourages the purchase of Fairtrade sports balls to reduce the rsik of slavery. Did you know that the leading producer of sports balls in the world is Pakistan, which produces approximately 70% of the world’s sports balls? Other Asian countries are also major producers? Pakistan produces 40…
Read MoreStop Trafficking – August 2022
The August edition of Stop Trafficking! considers the ways in which human trafficking and child and forced labour could be behind the food on our table. The articles in this issuee include: Child and Forced Labour in the Chocolate Industry Are the Labels on Chocolate Meaningful Your hamburger or glass of milk could be tainted…
Read MoreTrafficking in Agriculture
The UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and girls, Ms. Siobhán Mullally, expressed her grave concern about trafficking in the agriculture sector. In her June 2022 report to the UN Human Rights Council she stated: “The growth of agribusiness and the power of corporations, combined with the rapid pace of climate change…
Read MoreEnd child Labour
World Day Against Child Labour is observed each year on 12th June. The 2022 theme for this day is Universal Social Protection to End Child Labour. The day aims to highlight the plight of working children and to serve as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labour. A 2022 International Labour Organization…
Read MorePoverty Drives Child Labour
In a message sent to Guy Ryder, director-general of the International Labor Organization (ILO), on the occasion of the fifth Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labor held May 15-20 in Durban, South Africa, Pope Francis said poverty and inequality, which are major factors in child labor exploitation, must be addressed. “While significant progress…
Read MoreChocolate Scorecard Rankings
What is your favourite brand of chocolate? How does it rank on the 2022 Chocolate Scorecrad? Easter Eggs may have disappeared from supermaarket shelves but chocolate is enjoyed all year round. It is therefore important that we are aware of what is in the chocolate we purchase. As consumers we need to demand choclate that…
Read MoreStop Trafficking April 2022
The presence of child trafficking and forced labour in the production of food is the topic for the April edition of Stop Trafficking! When we sit down for a meal we don’t often think about how the food came to our table. Unfortunately the demand for cheaper products also increases the demand for cheap labour…
Read More2022 Chocolate Scorecard
The 2022 Chocolate Scorecard is out now! The biggest names in chocolate and cocoa have been evaluated and ranked on how they are tackling the big issues in the industry like child labour, pesticides, and deforestation. Find out who are the good eggs, and who is rotten, at www.chocolatescorecard.com. The 2022 Chocolate Scorecard Good Egg…
Read MoreCobalt Exploitation
Did you know that Cobalt is an essential metal in the making of batteries for electric cars, laptops and mobile phones? As the demand for new technologies grows so too does the demand for cobalt. We all want to embrace a greener future but we also need to be aware of how the minerals required…
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