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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.

Universally, there are about 168 million children who are working in labour. They make not even close to a dollar an hour and they don't even have time to attend school and to work on their futures. Terre des Hommes is dedicated to millions of these kids who have to take on the most dreadful kinds of child labour. For example, they are forced into prostitution and to be household slaves. They are also obligated to work in factories, mines and, plantations.

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.

Côte d'Ivoire is considered the worst place in the world for child labor issues. The article is full of statistics as well as reasons behind issues. There are many credible resources for information at the bottom of article.

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.

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.