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everyone loves chocolate three million

tons of it are consumed every year half

of it in Europe but the success of

chocolate has a dark side while first

world kids are enjoying the sweet taste

reality is rather different for Africa's

children according to a wide range of

organizations the chocolate industry is

accused of covering up the trafficking

of children and the use of child labor

on the cocoa plantation we have decided

to investigate these allegations

but the truth can be dangerous but we

will go undercover with hidden cameras

assumed identity but is it true that

young children work as slaves in the

chocolate industry

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our journey starts in Cologne in Germany

every year the chocolate industry

gathers to promote and sell their

products

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chocolate that is primarily made of

cocoa from cocoa plants first we want to

find out where the cocoa is from the

cocoa beans is from the South America or

Africa Africa every buying 50 that's

again South American roasted from Ghana

and Ivory Coast okay here we go

the Ivory Coast is the world's largest

cocoa producer but rumors abound about

child labor and the trafficking of

children where do you get the cocoa

beans from and the cocoa beans they come

from different regions in the world that

most of our cocoa beans they come from

Africa okay required Ghana do you know

where the beans are coming from in in

Ivory Coast yeah you do so we have that

tracking system that really goes back we

have we work with the three most

important chocolate manufacturers in

Belgium which is very salable Cargill

and they'll collab because it ever

rumors about you know child labor and

trafficking do you know anything about

that

do you have I think you think I really

speak about that subject with the people

from Barry Callebaut for instance

because they make sure and that they

have plans and they work together with

the cooperative in those regions where

face companies for theater okay

the Swiss company Barry Callebaut is the

largest supplier of cocoa mass for the

industry most of their cocoa comes from

the Ivory Coast how many people have you

employees in in for instance in Ivory

Coast in in Ivory Coast particularly I

don't know it by heart

in general we have almost thousand

people working in origin properties and

oh that's a lot out of the 30,000

Parliament almost thousand people work

what about the rumors I've heard about

rumors about child labour and

trafficking does it exist the

trafficking of kids in Ivory Coast to be

honest I don't know I don't know if the

traffic exists and if it exists I

presume that the exception has been

how few times now in those origin

completely I think I haven't seen myself

but if it exists opportunity from them

and again something which is absolutely

unacceptable

thank you very much HOV okay diving no

one here seems to believe the rumors of

child labor or trafficking we decide to

investigate further

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we are going to West Africa our first

stop is Mali children are said to be

smuggled from Mali to the cocoa

plantations on the Ivory Coast

this is trafficking

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the trafficking of children should not

actually be possible

the largest chocolate manufacturers

signed an agreement in 2001 it's called

the harkin angle protocol

it states that child labor and the

trafficking of children are prohibited

in the coca industry after 2008

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we have arrived in Mali one of the

world's poorest countries a country with

little or no export

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the authorities deny that children are

being trafficked that's why we're

working undercover and using hidden

cameras

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we have allied ourselves with a local

helper his name is Yu Xiao entirely

he runs a private school and a small

Hospital for the poorest citizens in my

neighborhood what I'm leaving I'm

experiencing every day you shall takes

us to see Qasim in southern Mali

we're told that trafficking takes place

from the bus station this is the

junction for all traffic to the Ivory

Coast

you shall says the children are bused to

the border town of cig WA and from there

they are smuggled across the border we

want to know more about the operation so

we go to the local union for the city's

bus drivers how is it with the

trafficking of her children and this is

our new center he be a big missionary

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ton plus since 2003 it rates a Kente has

tried to stop trafficking of children he

has statistics of the children he has

rescued from trafficking AB David Davis

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pickle Allah Allah Allah Muslim an

invisible guru Demi settler since and

column B cannot achieve money people

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in 2008 and 2009 he rescued over 150

children his list includes children aged

7 children from Mali Burkina Faso and

Niger

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we visit the local head of the bus

companies since he doesn't want to step

forward we use a hidden camera

concerning the wall open interval notice

a volu calculator do the Roger which was

a taxi would add a tab to : and hydrogen

while we talk a man suddenly turns up

the man has spotted a girl entering a

bus with a female trafficker

maybe I could said Indian down

once we get to the bus

the woman has disappeared but we took

out over the last night yeah

our Rutger man whoever

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sagu is a village 450 kilometers away

from this bus station but why is she

here I'm sorry I have no fear

keep it up moosilauke the one I went

over with our wife sorry it's not like

if it ours at all huh

the girl says he's 12

but you shall think she's younger she

was promised work in boquete an area

with many cocoa plantations some organic

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the girl is now handed over to social

services who will bring her back home

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the situation today is a very very sad

to me and it's heartbreaking at this

moment not the first time you know my

life is a full of this coming to this

awhile you know IRA listen very very bad

and cry

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now we're heading to Zig wa but we'll

make a stop along the way a village with

500 residents several children have

disappeared from here after being lured

away by traffickers how many children

has left your village to go to the ivory

coast we have been working in both this

already

how old are the children when they leave

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we drive on twos equi a small border

town only a few kilometers from the

Ivory Coast our cover story is that we

work for an aid organization

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we're going to meet a local restaurant

owner who is witnessed a child smuggling

here is the trafficking going on from

here every day during the attack as we

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A well the restaurant owner contacts a

trafficker who transports children on

his motorbike an hour later the

trafficker arrives we promise not to

mention his name

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trafficking is said to take place from

the cities bus station

normally this guarded crossing is used

according to the restaurant owner this

back road is used for illegal transport

it leads directly to the Ivory Coast we

go back and wait for the next bus a few

hours later a bus arrives from Sekar sir

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like what about the other boys what

about the boys

in the chaos around the bus the children

walk away the traffickers chase after

them and surround them on their

motorbike they will transport them

across the board

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okay you take a bike ride announcer okay

you need money yet what my mother is

with you we follow the traffickers by

the unofficial back row

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shortly after we find a boy who was

smuggled across by a trafficker it is

huh questioning me would it take a

moonroof even Molly ah ha ha

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soon the boy will be transported further

south

we leave Peugeot in the northern part of

the Ivory Coast an area controlled by

local militias who cooperate with the

traffickers

I think let's go let's go the town's

inhabitants begin to talk about us

researching the coca industry can be

dangerous on April the 16th 2004 French

Canadian journalist keiondre Kiefer was

kidnapped in a parking lot on the Ivory

Coast he was doing a story about bribery

and the laundering of coca money in the

Ivorian government he has never been

found and the case is still unsolved

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so now reporting we say goodbye to you

shall tie away and send our new helpers

undercover in the Ivory Coast

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their job is to visit cocoa plantations

and see if children work there

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well they're going over land we fly to

the cocoa capital of Abidjan the south

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Abidjan houses the head offices of the

largest chocolate manufacturers

here we find nestle Cargill ATM and

Barry Callebaut - all have their head

offices here with several hundred

employees 42% of the world's cocoa

production come from the Ivory Coast

together these companies buy almost the

entire production in Abidjan we meet

ours a boa he's a journalist for Reuters

and has studied the industry for years

he describes the route from a random

cocoa plantation to the chocolate

manufacturer it all starts at a cocoa

plantation the cocoa pods are harvested

and the beans are dried in the Sun then

the cocoa beans are bought by

intermediaries at one euro a kilo they

sell them to national exporters the

beans are then washed packed and sold

now the price is two-and-a-half euros a

kilo from the stock exchange the cocoa

is sold on to the chocolate companies

the companies turn them into cocoa

powder or cocoa butter the chocolate

manufacturers make chocolate a kilo of

cocoa at 1 euro for the farmer becomes

40 chocolate bars

we are meeting the third-largest cocoa

exporter SAP cacao they export to the US

and Europe they make a profit of more

than 135 million euros a year

these cocoa sites have arrived from a

halfway station in the area the cocoa

will later be delivered to nestle among

others

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adam's family plantation our undercover

researchers have reached a cocoa

plantation in the north of the Ivory

Coast they see several children some

carry machetes for harvesting the cocoa

pods

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front here so you don't think that the

children from Mali and Burkina Faso are

being a traffic to the Ivory Coast to

work in the cocoa plantation no no no no

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Alan a kiss is one of the world's

largest cocoa exporters

he sells cocoa to nestle among others he

is adamant there is neither trafficking

nor child labor and the Ivory Coast

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we head back to Abidjan

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our research has raised interest at the

highest Ivorian government levels we're

invited to meet the man officially in

charge of a fight against child

trafficking he is the president's

right-hand man and has asked for a

meeting because he has heard about our

investigation

hello yeah hello are you I thank you and

you're nice to meet you nice to meet you

what those ingredients donut a

documentary about the Coco's business

and about the problems which has been in

the cocoa sector which which problem

which one ok ok

the children will I do yes okay yes I'll

you but you know about the problem it's

not a problem it's not a problem

puddles I mean we know what's happening

yeah we know how to deal with this is no

more proxy this was Mel yes thank you

Monsieur

it's more comfortable okay I went to the

north the northern part of Ivory Coast's

the borders of were next to seek one its

practicals just you know take the

children and go through the back road

but honestly between you and me okay

the crop the cocoa crop starts in

October and finish in March so if you

see people coming in July September

October it's not for calcio there is no

cocoa around so it's not to work in the

cocoa for in the cocoa farms what is it

about I mean there's people here Kaja

for it's like I mean for those country

when that vacation they come you know

there's a watch within in front :

Etobicoke they're coming in cod you want

to have been coded wise like we have

already we want to go to France we want

to go to United States to spread I mean

for vacation okay they're coming for

vacation basically a trap sorry a bus

with 20 kids oh they're going to work no

farm but in September in July August

September they're going to do there's no

thing to do what about in April in April

that's different I saw it in a

pre-election and they're poor that's the

only thing I mean that's the one thing

we we stopped in April

people may I mean they will try to do it

but what you have to understand is that

even if people try to do it there is the

law against we've got too low

trafficking the child live everything is

against our weakest code again okay

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we decide to visit the plantations

ourselves to see if it's true that no

children are working here we choose a

random plantation in the area where SAP

cacao gets its cocoa

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today with yes we come across four

little boys than a man they all come

from Burkina Faso they don't seem to be

on vacation the plantation worker says

the children are aged 10 to 12 none of

the children goes to school or can speak

the local language according to

international labour laws this is

illegal

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we continue our search on other

plantation there are plenty of children

here we meet more plantation workers we

really like out there no matter what

demeanor guru Peter ocular traverse rock

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agriculture the two adult workers seem

suspicious of us yeah it's difficult to

know if they are telling the truth

because actually some of them sounds

familiar with the problem

using kids but now there is a more

communication about issue so when they

see someone with what people without

that you know the pay attention

atmosphere and the small Karen I can

switch the dancer project again we'll

use the hidden camera perhaps we'll get

different answers okay what's our first

one

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we meet a plantation owner comes many

jobs Egypt

he's from the neighboring country

Burkina Faso the man with Syria what is

I hope in travail another opportunity

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camping years ago probably when we have

been offering the cumbia to Nava vinegar

can observe in California where we stand

by life as well visible a child from

bikina faso can be bought for 230 euros

and that's without haggling the price

includes transport and indefinite use of

the child most children never get paid

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sometimes children managed to flee the

plantations we meet two boys from Mali

they've worked as slaves on the

plantation and the Ivory Coast it were

want to go to to work in the cocoa

plantation and Nagar Haveli Nene

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fast and undo more luminol can block the

use of child labor in the cocoa industry

is prevalent this is in spite of the

international chocolate manufacturers in

2001 having signed a protocol to the

contrary

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next we'll contact the chocolate

manufacturers who buy cocoa here what

are they doing to stop child labour in

the industry

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during our research we come across

Interpol

shortly before we arrived here they took

action on some cocoa plantations in the

eastern part of the Ivory Coast

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were saved

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like alpha leader Mullah me I'll ask you

shall she tell you this Sunday's on on

the specialist that sits on social

justice on socio don't H or failure puto

he shows us Interpol's report from the

operation stating that the children are

from Mali Burkina Faso

Niger Nigeria Togo and Benin yo Devon

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they turn on the with only the oldest

unit

were you surprised to find children or

working in the plantation simply no

there is no doubt about the extent of

the problem the chocolate manufacturers

should know these facts since each of

them has several hundred employees in

the Ivory Coast

thank you

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we returned to south cacao to confront

the owner with our new knowledge and

Interpol's operation last time you told

me that the child labor doesn't exist

but the interpol has rescued 65 children

in an operation what is you coming to

that this is immediate disease Lockett a

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nollie potassium the CEO of South Cal

now admits there is the problem

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now we're heading to Geneva in

Switzerland our part to statistic

responds normally charming mind

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we want to show our film to ILO a part

of the United Nations ILO is fighting

illegal child labor and trafficking on

an international basis

ILO and the chocolate industry signed

the harkin angle protocol in 2001 it was

to stop child labor in the chocolate

industry

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hello hello I'm Niki stretchy Frank

argument glad to meet you

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yeah well how do you feel about that if

they said as I said to CMS it so they

it's awesome you know I personally I've

been working in the area of programs and

policies against child labor for some 13

years now but every time you see

something like this you know it serves

as a shocking reminder I must say and

often me not you know I have to add

perhaps it's a it's a feeling of of

helplessness which overcomes you when

even you see something like that I mean

it's very it's a very dangerous work and

kids too and these plantations it's not

only the machetes but it's the they

often carry heavy loads we see that they

are also exposed to pesticides when you

work with pesticides the effects will

only come out and twenty or thirty years

yeah

does the protocol work in your opinion I

think we have seen some progress in the

area the the topic has been has been

kept in the international debate

government has been sensitized and some

knowledge has been put on the table but

in terms of real change we have seen

relatively a little so far as you ask me

now well how many kids do actually work

in cocoa plantations in Cote d'Ivoire

and in Ghana I wouldn't be able to give

you an exact figure

what are the chocolate companies really

doing to combat the problem

according to the industry they spent six

million euros a year on aid programs in

the last nine years by comparison

Nestle had a turnover of more than 12

billion euros last year we asked these

companies for an interview they all

decline to see and comment on our film

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they only issue a statement through

their joint spokesperson one passage

states the vast majority of cocoa farms

are not owned by the companies that make

chocolate or supply cocoa and we

therefore don't have direct control over

cocoa farming and labor practices the

industry will not accept responsibility

for these conditions

we won't give up we will make an extra

effort to make Nestle the largest food

company cial fill they have a world

market share of 12% and have been

present in the Ivory Coast for more than

fifty years they must know about the

problems of trafficking and child labor

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nestle will now get a chance to see how

most of their cocoa is grown

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according to international labor laws

this is strictly forbidden but it is

also the opposite of one family town the

other chocolate companies of problem

consumers the child labor was not incur

children industry

in 2008 2009 arrested over 150 children

its list includes children ages and

children from Mali Burkina Faso Niger

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