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This artical explains how child trafficking is today's slavery. There are stories on different kids and what happened to them. It states that in a 3 day period over 400 traffickers were arrested.

I think that it is interesting that slavery still exists. This article explains that people do not acknowledge it. It makes me sad that 12 year olds are being trafficked.

This article talks about the escalating number of child sex slaves in America, It tells some young girls story of their experiences.

Millions of children in India work as slaves. Some children are sold into slavery while others are runaways picked up by traffickers. The traffickers wait for runaways at train stations and see themselves as providing a placement service.

It goes very in depth about which each form if slavery is: Sex trafficking, kid sex traffic, forced labor, etc. Each one of these topics gets thoroughly explained.

This is a brief article on how the Nestle corporation is partnering with the Fair Labor Association to investigate child slavery claims at suppliers cocoa farms. The Fair Labor Association has made changes in other industries in the past but this will be the first time with a food product.

The history of the child labor in US. The bad side of the child labor in the early decades of the twentieth century, and the indentured servitude and child slavery. the article also shows the way people get over it, and how it was collapsed.

Of the many mistakes and harsh realities that have existed over the course of American history, I think this is definitely one of the most saddening. From the innocent deaths in the coal mines to the risky machinery work of the rising industrial era, the well being of employed children was vastly disregarded.

A follow up on the findings of The Fair Labor Association in regards to Nestle chocolate farms and child slave labor. The group has found that there is still a large child slave labor issue and the chocolate industry can not be counted on to fix it.

The pros and cons of a potential ban on West African chocolate are discussed in this article. Suggestions are made to companies like Hershey and Nestle to create better work environments for laborers. Responses from the big companies are included as well.