Trafficked Children On African Cocoa Plantations

EDM number 66 in 2007-08, proposed by Mike Hancock on 06/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Africa, Agriculture, Children and families, Crime, Employment and Human rights.

That this House notes with concern that trafficking of children is a growing problem in the production of cocoa and that at least 15,000 Malian children have been trafficked on to cocoa and coffee plantations in Cote d'Ivoire; welcomes the UK's support for the relevant International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions and ILO programmes elsewhere; notes with dismay the lack of progress by the cocoa industry in implementing a monitoring and certification process and its inability to be able to guarantee the absence of trafficked labour on cocoa production lines; and calls upon the Government and the cocoa industry to provide a Traffick Free Guarantee, as suggested by the Stop the Traffick coalition, for all cocoa products.

This motion has been signed by a total of 65 MPs.