Kisses For Children Of Africa Essay

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The concept of ”right” correlates to the freedom from intrusion of other person or the government. Individual rights speak about the liberties of each individual to aspire to life and goals without intrusion of other person or government. According to Catholic Social Teaching, violating or compromising other persons’ rights depreciates his or her dignity in the process. In business world, the theme of rights and responsibilities is seen different. Many corporations, starting with the small ones do not govern properly the business and do not distribute fairly the burdens and benefits within organization. No Hersey’s Kisses for Children of Africa case is one example where the theme of rights and responsibilities is applied to business settings. …show more content…

The Hersey Company, the largest chocolate producer in the world buys most of its cocoa from West Africa. Ivory Coast and Ghana are the world’s largest producer of cocoa. In Ghana children are forced to work on cocoa farms sometimes seven days a week, under hot temperatures, being exposed to all sorts of unhealthy. These children, coming from poor countries, are sold to traffickers by parents in order to get some income for their family. They receive no education, are paid nothing, are beaten regularly and are almost no fed. Being surrounded by bodies of water, and having a strategic placement on West Africa’s Coast, Ghana was and continues to be a big center of the slave trade for that part of Continent.
Looking to the Hersey Company’s activity, we can see that the primary ingredient of their products, cocoa, is purchasing from sources known for abusive labor practices as child slavery, forced labor and human traffickers. So next times when you will buy a Hersey chocolate ask your self: is there child slavery in my chocolate? Ghana’s government is under pressure to eliminate child labor and to reinstate the right of human dignity to children. Also international human rights organization states that theses farmers and Ghana’s government are violating the international law and deprive children of a right

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