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    Slavery in the Chocolate Industry What a systematic‚ corporate‚ an individual and ethical issues raised by this case? The systematic ethical issues raised by this case include economical‚ political‚ and legal questions. Let us first look at the economical repercussions. Would it be economically logical not to do any business with these countries? The answer is no‚ considering close to half of the world’s chocolate is made from the cocoa beans that are grown in the Ivory Coast and Ghana

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    Question 1: What are the systemic‚ corporate and individual ethical issues raised by this case? Systemic Issues are the issues that concern the economic‚ political and other social systems within which the business operate. Systemic ethical issues that are raised by this case are as follows: 1. Children are kidnapped by the farmers of Ghana and Ivory Coast and sold off as slaves to coca harvesting farms where they are forced to do manual labor in the form of clearing the field‚ harvesting the

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    Wu Jindi. Research method: This case talks about Slavery in the chocolate industry. They treat children as slavery‚ and force them to do hard work. The reason by various factors‚ we can discuss form systemic‚ corporate and individual ethical issues. Such as systemic‚ economic systems should be taken into consideration. Cocoa bean prices had declined‚ between 1996 and 2000‚ the price control by the global market but farmers had no control. Farmers turned to slavery to try to cut labour cost for their

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    1. What are the systemic‚ corporate‚ and individual ethical issues raised by this case? I think the government of both countries which is the producer of the cocoa beans and the manufacturer should establish an agreement for the protection of the children‚ with private and government investment‚ create an institution to oversee the performance of the farms‚ in which each producer farms should be registered for be allowed to run‚ and this institution should have personnel able to visit at least 2

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    MSGL 502 Ethics and Leadership An Ethical look into Slavery in the Chocolate Industry People around the world share a love of chocolate‚ one of the most delicious and pleasurable foods on earth. However‚ thousands of Africa’s children are modern-day slaves‚ bonded to their employers and forced against their will to work in hazardous and heartbreaking conditions. Slavery in the chocolate industry has been widely publicized through the years. The face of enslaved children has been the

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    Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Chocolate is a product of the cacao bean which grows primarily in the tropical climates of West Africa and Latin America. The cacao bean is more commonly referred to as cocoa‚ so that is the term we will use throughout. Two West African countries‚ Ghana and the Ivory Coast‚ supply 75% of the world’s cocoa market.[1] The cocoa they grow and harvest is sold to a variety of chocolate companies‚ including some of the largest in the world. In recent years‚ a handful

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    Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Introduction The forced labour of children in the Ivorian cocoa farms is at a distance from the glamourised candy producers such as Mars and Nestlé‚ and a universe away from the day-to-day consumers of chocolate. That such a quixotic market shares a commonality with the more exposed diamond market‚ for example‚ whose implication in the sale and involvement of guns in tribal cleansing has long been documented‚ drives home the reminder that our modern prosperity

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    jcc18schrage.qx 4/7/05 5:43 pm Page 99 The Cocoa Industry and Child Labour* Elliot J. Schrage Council on Foreign Relations‚ USA Anthony P. Ewing Columbia University‚ USA Reports of forced child labour on the cocoa farms of Côte d’Ivoire surfaced in 2000 and quickly became an important business issue for a number of prominent companies. Media coverage and the threat of regulatory action mobilised the international cocoa industry to collaborate with other stakeholders to eliminate the

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    Chocolate and Child Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of the Cocoa Industry International Labor Rights Fund June 30‚ 2004 It is estimated that America spends $13 billion a year on chocolate. However‚ in the past few years‚ it has become increasingly clear that this favorite American product is tainted with the labor of innocent young children. The fact that child slaves are used in the harvesting of cocoa beans in Cote D’Ivoire‚ the world’s major supplier of cocoa‚ is undisputed. The US State

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    � PAGE �1� _Case paper - Slavery in the Chocolate Industry_ The case "Slavery in the Chocolate Industry" discusses labor exploitation in the chocolate industry. It specifically addresses the cocoa beans grown on farms in West Africa‚ especially the Ivory Coast and Ghana‚ which make up close to half of the world’s chocolate. The cocoa farmers of these nations‚ however‚ often rely on slaves to harvest their beans‚ and in some cases‚ enslavement of young males (Velasquez‚ 2006). This paper will discuss

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