Cocoa agriculture and human rights

Children working in cocoa agriculture are frequently involved in hazardous child labor. There is also evidence of individual cases of children exposed to worst forms of child labor (child trafficking, forced labor, etc.). A projected total of 819,921 children in Côte d’Ivoire and 997,357 children in Ghana worked on cocoa-related activities 2008-2009. A very small percentage of children and their caregivers (<5%) report exposure to educational and vocational training activities, and remediation efforts, at any point in their lives.