Posts Tagged ‘Child Labour’
Chocolate Scorecard Coming Soon
Easter is just around the corner, and so is the 6th edition of the Chocolate Scorecard! Right now, Be Slavery Free is hard at work with their partners, surveying major chocolate companies to find out which brands are truly sweet—not just in taste, but for people, primates, and the planet. Mark your calendars! The Chocolate…
Read MoreTrick or Treat
Halloween is all about indulging in treats, but what if we told you there’s a hidden trick behind many of the chocolates we enjoy? Beneath the wrappers, millions of farmers and children are facing the bitter realities of poverty in the cocoa growing industry. We aim to expose the reality of cocoa production — and show you…
Read MoreAct to End Child Labour
World Day Against Child Labour is observed each year on 12th June. The theme for 2024 is Let’s Act on our Commitments: End Child Labour. 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the adoption of ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (1999), which, in 2020, was the first ILO Convention to…
Read MoreStop Trafficking May 2024
The May 2024 issue of Stop Trafficking! focuses on the role of child and forced labour in the fashion industry. According to the International Labour Organisation about 160 million children are involved in labour globally. Many of these are involved in making the clothes we purchase. Articles in the May issue include: Download your copy…
Read MoreBuy Better Chocolate
A better chocolate is better for people and the planet! It’s free of child labor, provides a living income for cocoa farmers, empowers women, and cares for the environment. Be Slavery Free has surveyed the world’s chocolate companies to find out what’s really going into the chocolate you buy. The 5th edition of the Chocolate Scorecard is…
Read MoreTrick or Treat?
If you’re looking for a real fright this Halloween, look at what might be going into your favourite chocolate treat! Child labour? Farmer poverty? Harmful pesticides and farming chemicals? We deserve better, and so do cocoa farmers! Be Slavery Free surveyed the biggest chocolate companies on the planet to find out who is doing good…
Read MoreBuying 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…
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