SchokoFair
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| Stop child labor! | |
| Children's rights , child labor , chocolate | |
| languages | German |
| operator | Montessori comprehensive school Düsseldorf |
| On-line | 2010 |
| http://www.schokofair.de/ | |
“ SchokoFair - Stop Child Labor !” Has been committed to combating the exploitation of children in chocolate production since mid-2010 . The project is run on a voluntary basis by pupils from the Maria Montessori School in Düsseldorf and the Integrated School in Melle. The SchokoFair Group is UNICEF Junior Ambassador of the Year 2013.
General
In July 2010, through an ARD report , the pupils of the Montessori secondary school became aware of the problem that a large part of the cocoa beans obtained for the European chocolate industry is harvested using child labor and child slaves.
Almost all confectionery manufacturers get their cocoa beans mainly from Ivory Coast , knowing full well that child labor is the order of the day given the unstable conditions there. Tens of thousands of children are kidnapped and sold to plantation farmers as slaves for the cocoa bean harvests.
activities
SchokoFair demands a Schoko-TÜV law from politicians
The SchokoFair children's initiative was invited to the Bundestag twice. SchokoFair applied for a chocolate TÜV law. if possible also for the EU. All chocolate companies are required to provide complete evidence of their supply chains and if companies can be proven to have violated human rights (such as abusive child labor) in their supply chains, the law provides for lawsuits and, in the event of convictions, punishments for companies. The parliamentary advisory council for sustainable development of the Bundestag heard the students on their legislative proposal. However, your legislative proposal was not included in the deliberations of the Bundestag, as the chocolate companies are relying on the voluntary commitment to respect human rights. They also promised to eradicate the poverty of cocoa farmers and their children through the support of sustainably certified chocolates (Fairtrade, UTZ, Rainforest Alliance).
Sustainable Cocoa Forum
Federal Minister Gerd Müller told Schokofairs that he considers the Forum for Sustainable Cocoa to be a "chocolate TÜV". The Schokofairs then became a member of the forum and are the only children’s initiative to work in the civil society group.
Thanks to their participation in the Sustainable Cocoa Forum, the Schokofairs were able to give the first children's speech at a world cocoa conference in Berlin in April 2018, which received a lot of attention. They achieved that the fight against abusive child labor became a main topic at the congress.
Rally for children's rights
On the occasion of the World Cocoa Congress, Schokofair organized a rally for children's rights. 200 children's delegates from seven schools and three federal states took part in the rally in front of the congress location.
further activities
The students of the SchokoFair Group have been collecting signatures as part of their project since 2010, with the aim of handing them over to the Federal Association of the German Confectionery Industry in a press campaign . Furthermore, the students operate a website and use social media channels to raise awareness, produce their own radio broadcast, do press and awareness-raising work and raise awareness of the issue with protest campaigns.
support
Inka Bause and Wolfgang Niedecken have been supporting SchokoFair since its early days and are sponsors of the SchokoFair project.
In addition, numerous celebrities show solidarity with the demands of SchokoFair, among them Richard Gere , Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel , Helmut Schmidt , Federal Development Minister Gerd Müller , Dirk Nowitzki , Anke Engelke , Joachim Król , Ben , Willi Weitzel , Mehmet Kurtuluş , Moritz Zielke , Eckart von Hirschhausen , Thomas Geisel and Federal Minister of Justice Katarina Barley .
The project was also regularly supported by KiKa , the children's channel of ARD and ZDF , in 2013/2014 .
Awards
The SchokoFair project has received several awards for its social commitment. In January 2011 it received the “ AWO Child Protection Prize”, in February 2012 the “Düsseldorfer Schulpreis der Westdeutsche Zeitung ” and in September 2012 special recognition from the “WDR Children's Rights Prize 2012”. In addition, in March 2013 the students won first place in the nationwide “Kid-Witness-News” competition by Panasonic with their self-made film Nur 2 Cent and represented Germany in the international Kid-Witness-News competition "Zukunftsmacher" honored, were honored with the FairTrade Award 2014, were chosen as Düsseldorf of the year 2014 and won the 1st prize of the Golden Brat of the German Children's Fund 2018.
The students received the most important award to date in June 2013: SchokoFair-AG achieved first place at the award ceremony in Frankfurt and is therefore “ UNICEF Junior Ambassador 2013”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dirty Chocolate
- ^ Position on abusive child labor in cocoa cultivation in West Africa of the "Federal Association of the German Confectionery Industry eV"
- ^ Sören Reimer: German Bundestag - Schokofair children want a Schoko-Tüv. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Our members - Sustainable Cocoa Forum. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Interactivity rules for the 1,500 attendees at WCC Berlin. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
- ^ World - Cocoa - Conference in Berlin - Child labor on cocoa plantations. Tagesschau report. In: YouTube.com. April 2018, accessed August 30, 2019 .
- ↑ SchokoFair website
- ^ Antenna-Düsseldorf radio broadcast
- ↑ SchokoFair press review
- ↑ Protest against "Your face for children's chocolate"
- ↑ See slideshow on the start page
- ↑ SchokoFair - Stop child labor. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Wayback Machine. December 6, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Wayback Machine. December 6, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Wayback Machine. December 6, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Students against child labor. February 1, 2016, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Wayback Machine. December 6, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Photo receipt
- ↑ Wayback Machine. December 6, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Wayback Machine. December 6, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Wayback Machine. December 6, 2014, accessed December 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Photo receipt
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ AWO-Spiegel February 2011 (pdf)
- ↑ Westdeutsche Zeitung of February 8, 2012 (PDF; 228 kB)
- ↑ Article on WDR.de ( Memento from October 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Film "Just 2 Cent" on Youtube
- ↑ Press release Magix.com
- ↑ Commitment to more children's rights in the cocoa industry / KiKA as a guest at the Sustainability Advisory Council of the German Bundestag. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Former award winners. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Project “SchokoFair - Stop Child Labor!” From Düsseldorf wins the Golden Brat of the German Children's Fund. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Younicef.de ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
