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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, 215 million children worldwide used as child labour, 152 million child workers under the age of 15, 115 million children involved in dangerous activities – these are shocking figures that we can no longer tolerate. I voted in favour of the resolution on child labour in the cocoa sector, with absolute conviction, because the European Union has to play a fundamental role in stopping this form of modern slavery.
The Commission must do its utmost to include effective provisions that will guarantee dignified employment and prevent forced child labour in all trade agreements with cocoa producing countries such as Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. We need a traceability mechanism to identify goods produced using child labour. The European Union has always defended the rights of the world’s most vulnerable people, and children working in the harvesting of cocoa beans deserve our full attention."@en1
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