Invisible Hands is the first feature documentary that exposes child labor and child trafficking within the supply chains | dG1fVDdUcVhCaVY4Q0U
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00:00The children are working day in and day out as slaves.
00:11At least animals can roam around freely.
00:14But these children can't.
00:16They have no dream.
00:18Virtually no country is immune to child labor, and virtually no industry is immune to child
00:35labor.
00:36They become pawns in this international economic process.
00:41We reported total revenue of more than $482 billion.
00:47It's their suffering turned into our clothes, and our food, and our jewelry, and our chocolate.
00:53We don't know that it's being produced by forced child labor in many cases.
00:59Kids that are child slaves.
01:01Those that are actually doing the burning, preparing the plantations, spraying the herbicides
01:07which are in many cases banned in other parts of the world, doing so without protection,
01:13these workers too often are children.
01:17Companies often aren't interested in finding out what is actually happening.
01:21The problem is really enforcement.
01:23Companies like Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Altria Group, Reynolds
01:28American.
01:29They've set up a system where they don't have the responsibility for what happens on the
01:35farm.
01:36Are you aware that there is child trafficking on cocoa farms across Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire?
01:42These are very rare cases.
01:43When we detect such cases through our system, we immediately alert the authorities.
01:50When I was in Ghana in December, on all the farms I visited, I found incidences of trafficked
01:55children.
01:56It didn't seem very rare to me.