United Nations Children’ s Fund( UNICEF) now fund other schools in the areas that used to be recruiting grounds for the carpet belt.
Throughout all of history, people have oppressed other people. And throughout history, heroes have risen up.
It is clear that, once aware, most people do not want to buy chocolate, coffee, rugs, or any other product made with slave labor. Given a chance, most consumers do not want to harm the people who make the products they consume.
3.5 Conclusion
Companies can only sell things if people buy them. Consumers have the power. As a consumer, use that power!
Start making a difference. You have the knowledge after reading this, so change the world!
Be a hero.
For further reading www. freetheslaves. net
For a list of great anti-slavery reading recommendations, go to www. freetheslaves. net / sslpage. aspx? pid = 362
www. antislavery. org www. thecnnfreedomproject. com www1. american. edu / ted / chocolate-slave www. crossing-borders-fair-trade. com www. icco. org / about-cocoa / chocolate-industry www. iita. org
www. interpol. int / News-and-media / News-mediareleases / 2009 / N20090803
www. laborrights. org / stop-child-labor / cocoa-campaign www. thecnnfreedomproject. com
www. vision. ucsd. edu /~ kbranson / stopchocolateslavery / atasteofslav ery. html
A quick web search will bring up lots of results.
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