Child slavery Found on West African Fairtrade cocoa farms

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BBC Panorama has uncovered child slavery and child labour on Fairtrade certified cocoa farms in Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire that supply cocoa to Cadburys and Nestle.

The investigative news programme indentified trafficked children within the Kuapo Kokoo cooperative in Ghana, which supplies Fairtrade cocoa to Cadburys.

Panorama also uncovered child labour on farms of the Kavokiva cooperative in Ivory Coast, a Fairtrade cocoa supplier to Nestle. Together Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire countries account for 60 per cent of the global cocoa supply.

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