The Dark Side of Chocolate is about the exploitation and slave trading of African children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it.

1. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
THE DARK SIDE OF CHOCOLATE
PRESENTED BY
ANKUR AGGARWAL 15DM031
ANSHIKA GARG 15DM032
ANSHUL GUPTA 15DM033
ANURAG DUTT 15DM034
ARPIT PANCHAL 15DM035
ASHISH MISHRA 15DM036

4.  The Dark side of Chocolate – directed by Miki
Mistrati – child labour and trafficked children in
chocolate production.
 Chocolate Consumption : 3 million tonnes per year
 80 % of cocoa beans come from Ivory coast and
Ghana
 The Ivory coast and Cote’ D Ivoire produces
roughly 40 % of the world’s chocolate
 Child Labour and child slavery is prevalent in Cote’
D Ivoire

5. Child Trafficking and Slave Labor
 Trafficking – the illegal movement of children,
typically for the purposes of forced labor or sexual
exploitation
 Over 200,000 trafficked
children work in West Africa
 An estimated 15,000 are working
as slaves
 Most are from Mali, some also
from Ghana, Benin, Tobo,
Burkina Faso

6. Harkin – Engel Protocol
In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and its
members signed a document called the Harkin-Engel Protocol
that prohibited the harvest of their cocoa beans through
means of child workers
 Key Action Plan
1. Public Statement of need for and terms of an action plan
2. Formation of multi-sectoral Advisement Groups
3. Signed Joint Statement of child labor to be witnessed at the
ILO
4. Memorandum of Cooperation
5. Establishment of Joint Foundation
6. Building towards Credible Standards

8. Government
Host Community
Business Partners
Core Operations
Spheres of Influence Model of
CSR
Company spheres
of influence

9. Core Operation
• When confronted with this issue, corporate representatives
denied all rumors of child labor and trafficking, but the
investigations of the filmmakers brought to light the continued
widespread use of trafficked child slaves on cocoa plantations.
• Nestle and other companies declined an invitation to watch
the film and to answer questions. In response, Mistrati set up a
large screen next to Nestle’s headquarters in Switzerland,
forcing employees to catch a glimpse of child labor in the cocoa
industry

10. Business Partners
• 40% of Cocoa beans comes from Ivory Coast, which relates every
company to this place...
• Major Suppliers of Cocoa in Region
– Berry Callebaut
– Saf Cacao
– ADM( Largest Grower of Cocoa)
• 10,000 children in the Ivory Coast are victims or slavery or human
trafficking

11. Host Community
• West Africa(Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Togo,
Mali).
• 60% of children that are working
on cocoa farms are younger than 14
(Griek, Penikett, and Hougee 2010).
• Parents and children are lied to and told
that their children will be given an education
and work skills or they are kidnapped
while playing in the street.
• Results in Dark Future generations.

12. Government
• International treaties such as
– The Convention on the Right of the Child
– Child Labour Convention
– Minimum Age Convention
• International foundation
– Harkin-Engel Protocol (For ending abusive labour practices
& forced child labour
– International Cocoa Initiative (ICI)(For reducing child
labour).
• Chocolate companies have considerable lobbying influence on
political parties and local bodies.

13. How we can bring the change
•Social Media-Biggest platform to start a war
against modern day slavery.
•Online petitions- Petitions filed can be
associated with Social Media to spread out in a
more powerful way.(E.G Change.org.
•Further Awareness is required to be increased
among local People.

14. The man who led movement against child labour
 Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi dedicated
himself to protect and advance child rights for over 3
decades
 Hepled 80,000 child labours and gave them new hope
in life
 NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan
 Global March against Child Labour, a
movement active in various countries