Resources

This report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) provides updated estimates of child labour at a global and regional level.

NORC at the University of Chicago’s report “Assessing progress in reducing child labor in cocoa production in Cocoa Growing Areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana” presents a comprehensive analysis of the child labour situation in cocoa-growing areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.

In parallel with its analysis of child labour in cocoa-growing areas in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, NORC at the University of Chicago conducted a study, funded by the World Cocoa Foundation, that examined the effectiveness of industry interventions in reducing the prevalence of hazardous child labour.

In late 2016, at the request of the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and two of its major private sector members, Verité researchers undertook rapid appraisal research to explore the nature of forced labour risk in the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire.

The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian organisation dedicated to ending contemporary slavery and human trafficking, issued the 2018 version of their “Global Slavery Index” on 19 July 2018. The index provides a country by country ranking of the number of people in modern slavery, as well as an analysis of the actions governments are taking to respond, and the factors that make people vulnerable. This year, the Global Slavery Index featured a chapter on forced labour related to cocoa in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.