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"The main purpose of this resolution is to warn of the use of child labour in the cocoa fields and to condemn it, along with all other such exploitation of children. The resolution comprises a whole list of good intentions and best practices in the struggle against child labour. Whilst proposing aims such as ‘to ensure that all trade agreements include effective provisions on poverty reduction and the promotion of decent work and safe working conditions, along with legally binding clauses on internationally agreed human rights’, it ‘calls on the Commission to ensure policy coherence in all its initiatives’.
What this ignores, however, is that many of the clauses demanded are already written into certain agreements, but are dead letters, never being implemented in practice; however, they are always, always being subordinated to business and profit. There is no focus here on the real reasons for the use of child labour, specifically, the socio-economic conditions of farmers and workers on these cocoa plantations.
The resolution makes some pertinent observations on the pressure to reduce labour costs in the cocoa fields. Lamentably, however, no solutions are proposed to counter these pressures and bring about the necessary wage increases for these workers."@en1
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