| Titre : |
The dark side of chocolate |
| Type de document : |
document multimédia |
| Auteurs : |
Miki Mistrati, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Bastard Film & TV |
| Année de publication : |
2010 |
| Présentation : |
46 minutes 28 secondes |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Vidéothèque
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| Tags : |
Travail Tiers-Monde Multinationales Matières premières |
| Résumé : |
In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an agreement that was signed by the major chocolate companies almost 10 years before the film was made, aimed at ending child trafficking and slave labor in the cocoa industry. The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks several chocolate company representatives whether they are aware of child labour in cocoa farms. In Mali, the film shows that children, having been promised paid work, are taken to towns near the border such as Zegoua, from where another trafficker transports the children over the border on a dirt-bike. Then they are left with a third trafficker who sells the children to farmers for a starting price of 230 Euros each. The children, ranging in age from 10 to 15, are forced to do hard and often hazardous labor, are often beaten, and according to the film's narrator most are never paid. The narrator also claims that most of them stay with the plantation until they die, never seeing their families again. No documentary evidence is shown to support the claims that the children are not paid or that they are made to work until they die. The Harkin-Engel Protocol promised to end the use of child labour. |
The dark side of chocolate [document multimédia] / Miki Mistrati, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Bastard Film & TV, 2010 . - : 46 minutes 28 secondes. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Vidéothèque
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| Tags : |
Travail Tiers-Monde Multinationales Matières premières |
| Résumé : |
In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an agreement that was signed by the major chocolate companies almost 10 years before the film was made, aimed at ending child trafficking and slave labor in the cocoa industry. The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks several chocolate company representatives whether they are aware of child labour in cocoa farms. In Mali, the film shows that children, having been promised paid work, are taken to towns near the border such as Zegoua, from where another trafficker transports the children over the border on a dirt-bike. Then they are left with a third trafficker who sells the children to farmers for a starting price of 230 Euros each. The children, ranging in age from 10 to 15, are forced to do hard and often hazardous labor, are often beaten, and according to the film's narrator most are never paid. The narrator also claims that most of them stay with the plantation until they die, never seeing their families again. No documentary evidence is shown to support the claims that the children are not paid or that they are made to work until they die. The Harkin-Engel Protocol promised to end the use of child labour. |
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