The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)

Directors

Miki Mistrati

The story

In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin–Engel Protocol, an agreement that was signed by the major chocolate companies almost 10 years before the film was made, aimed at ending child trafficking and slave labor in the cocoa industry. The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks several chocolate company representatives whether they are aware of child labour in cocoa farms. In Mali, the film shows that children, having been promised paid work, are taken to towns near the border such as Zégoua, from where another trafficker transports the children over the border on a…

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